(CNN) – An incarcerated 53-year-old man is beating President Barack Obama in eight West Virginia counties following the state's Democratic Presidential Primary Tuesday, according to the latest figures from the West Virginia secretary of state.
Keith Judd, who is currently serving a 210-month sentence at a correctional facility in Texarkana, Texas for extortion, is trailing the president 42.28% to 57.72% in the state based on the unofficial vote totals, but is leading in eight counties.
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Judd only needs 15% of the vote to qualify for at least one delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina this summer, according to The Charleston Gazette. His expected release date is June 24, 2013, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Obama has not had electoral success in West Virginia, a reliably red state in presidential politics. He was crushed by then-Sen. Hillary Clinton in the state's Democratic presidential primary in May 2008 by a 67% to 26% margin. And he lost the state to Sen. John McCain, the then-Republican presidential nominee, 56% to 43% in the November 2008 general election.
The Mountain State's Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and junior Sen. Joe Manchin have also recently distanced themselves from the president ahead of their 2012 elections.
In Tuesday's election, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney received nearly 70% of the vote, according to the latest unofficial figures, while former candidate Rick Santorum garnered over 12% support and Rep. Ron Paul captured just over 11% of the vote.
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Sure, you un-American teapublican conservatives want President Obama out as fast as possible so he doesn't continue succeeding in moving the country forward! If the President was failing, you people would have been satisfied but he has defied the odds and proved you racists wrong and with God's help, he has managed to clean up alot of the mess he inherited to move the countrty forward! Envy and jealousy, bigotry and racism are the saddest traits of mankind! let's face it, if the unemployment rate was to be reduced to 0.00% you racists would still hate the black man in the white house! Our President could never please you people because to you people, his success is your failure! Well, too bad, Obama/Biden 2012! Now go eat some rat dong!
It's west virginia.............whadda ya expect?
North Carolina OTHER received 20% of the votes Vs. Oloser. Oloser is toast in 2012.
A felon can't vote, but can run for public office.
Really pathertic.
Keith Judd simply has all his brothers and sisters voting for him.
Sorry to say, but this doesnt say a whole lot for the people in West Virginia. Seriously, folks? Wasting your right to vote on a criminal? (who, in my opinion, shouldnt have even been able to file for running in the election).
The headline to this article SHOULD be "42% of West Virginia Democrats Prefer Hometown Criminal to the Criminal in the Whitehouse."
Convicted felons are a huge, huge, huge part of the Democrat party's base. Like all America-hating leftists who have won the Democrat party's presidential nomination, Obama will win at least 99.999997% of the convicted felon vote against Mitt Romney. Take that to the bank.
I thought that as an inmate you lose the right to vote while incarcerated, so how in the world could an inmate get on the ballot and receive votes if he himself cannot vote???
Hill Williams in the Welfare State of West Virginia aren't an indicator of anything. Be serious.
It's WEST Virginia folks... Do you know of any other state that basically seceded a chunk of itself just to get those counties away from them? I'm sure many states would like to do this, but this was the only one who said, sure that's a great idea... GTFA....
West Virginia? Consider the source.
Come on CNN we know wants happening............
@textee
Uh, felons can't vote. They can only apparently be bought and paid for by super PACS for Mitt Romney as tools... come to think of it, romney will most likely win 99.99997% of the tool vote. You can take that to your off shore account.
President Obama's success is the teapublicans failure! We have to get that black man out of the white house because he's having too much success and everything he touches turns to gold! We teapublicans can't have that black man re-write the American history books and go down as the greatest POTUS ever! We have to do something, we must divide, spread our fear mongering, bigotry and racism to conquer! Darn, that black man is good! Eat your hearts out teapublicans! Obama/Biden 2012!
That just shows that republicans don't want obama, they'd rather have a crook. and they want one bad enough to pretend they are democrats (for a few minutes)
If you can't read.........................
West Virginia, why are you letting our party down?. Were you aware who Keith Judd is or just picked up the name? Why didn't you use your precious time to do other important things instead?
Hahahahahahahaha!!!! I would have voted the same way. Obama's a bad joke at the expense of the American people and will go down in history as THE WORST president ever.
that is what happens when all the voters are related to the guy running!!!!
(this guy is a criminal – tells a lot about the people that live there!!!)
God bless General Grant and the Union!
The scary thing; they don't realize that it reflect badly on the W. Virginia citizens more than the candidate.
Stories like this do absolutley nothing for the tourism industry for West Virginia.
Blah blah the wheel's off your trailer
President Obama's success is the teapublicans failure! We have to get that black man out of the white house because he's having too much success and everything he touches turns to gold! We teapublicans can't have that black man re-write the American history books and go down as the greatest POTUS ever! We have to do something, we must divide, spread our fear mongering, bigotry and racism to conquer! Darn, that black man is good! Eat your hearts out teapublicans! Obama/Biden 2012!
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One word – thorazine.
CNN,.. report some real news,.. this is total garbage, a La Fox.