{"id":15606,"date":"2008-05-20T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15606.html"},"modified":"2008-05-20T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T00:00:17","slug":"clinton-cruises-to-easy-win-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/clinton-cruises-to-easy-win-in-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton cruises to easy win in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

As expected, the moments the polls closed in Kentucky, the networks called the state for Hillary Clinton<\/a>. The votes are still being tallied, but it’s not close.<\/p>\n

That said, it probably won’t be a landslide on par with West Virginia. With about 48% of the precincts reporting, Clinton’s lead over Obama is about 20 points, 58.4% to 37.9%. The margin may yet increase, but I kind of thought Obama would lose by a lot more.<\/p>\n

As for the exit polls, they weren’t encouraging<\/a> for the party.<\/p>\n

A majority of voters in Kentucky said they would be dissatisfied if Obama is the nominee, including nearly 8 in 10 Clinton voters. By contrast, half of Obama\u2019s supporters say they would be dissatisfied with Mrs. Clinton.<\/p>\n

Just 1 in 3 Clinton voters said they would vote for Mr. Obama in a general election. About 4 in 10 of them said they would vote for John McCain, the likely Republican nominee. And nearly 1 in 4 said they wouldn\u2019t vote at all.<\/p>\n

In contrast, 7 in 10 of Obama supporters said they would back Mrs. Clinton against Mr. McCain in November.<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s this: About 20 percent of white voters (and almost 90 percent of the voters were white) said race was an important factor in their vote, and nearly 9 in 10 of them supported Mrs. Clinton.<\/p>\n

Most voters in Kentucky also said that Mr. Obama shares the views of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. (though just about 2 in 10 think he shares them a lot). About half do not think Mr. Obama is honest and trustworthy and slightly more than half said he does not share their values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll be back in a bit with more.<\/p>\n

Update<\/i>: This is far more in line with expectations — with 87% of the vote reporting, the margin of Clinton’s lead is up to 35%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As expected, the moments the polls closed in Kentucky, the networks called the state for Hillary Clinton. The votes are still being tallied, but it’s not close. That said, it probably won’t be a landslide on par with West Virginia. With about 48% of the precincts reporting, Clinton’s lead over Obama is about 20 points, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}