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Barack Obama was not the only Democrat on the ballot on Tuesday in West Virginia's Democratic Presidential Primary. Keith Judd - also known as Inmate No. 11593-051 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas - was running against him.
Judd, who is serving out a 17.5 year sentence for extortion, currently has received 40 percent of the vote, with 83 percent of precincts reporting, according to The Associated Press. Obama currently has received 60 percent of the vote.
Obama's lack of popularity in West Virginia has been well-documented. The state's governor Earl Ray Tomblin and it's junior senator Joe Manchin, both Democrats, have kept their distance from the president.
A further potential embarrassment for the Democrats, as The Charleston Gazette reports, Judd only needs 15 percent of the vote - which, indeed, it looks like he has accomplished - in order to be entitled to have at least one delegate represent him at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. this summer.
Judd would not be the first Democratic challenger to Obama to qualify for delegate representation at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. In Oklahoma's Democratic primary in March, Randall Terry, a Democratic candidate who founded the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue and has more than 50 arrests under his belt, received 18 percent of the vote in the primary, giving him one delegate.
It is unknown what type of affect Judd's status as a federal prisoner might have on the delegate allocation and selection to the convention.

http://news.yahoo.com/federal-inmate-ke ... itics.html

[S.F. Jude Terror]

Nice job, Zenguru.

[GHERU]

[Zero]

Apparently the state hasn't felt the need to amend their constitution re: marriage since they put a stop to those pesky interracial marriages. Nice to see they're still at the forefront of whatever it is they think this will achieve.

EDIT This is apparently North Carolina, not West Virginia.

[Rockman]

I think you guys have an innaccurate view of west virginia. It's a beautiful state, with wonderful people in it. This kind of stuff certainly isn't the norm there.

[Timbales]

He's serving a sentence for extortion, sounds like a politician to me.

[US Agent]

He's serving a sentence for extortion, sounds like a politician to me.

If it was tax evasion he wouldn't have been on the ticket against Obama, but most likely working for Obama.

[S.F. Jude Terror]

I think you guys have an innaccurate view of west virginia. It's a beautiful state, with wonderful people in it. This kind of stuff certainly isn't the norm there.

Yes it is. I lived there for a year.

[Rockman]

Yes it is. I lived there for a year.

I'm reluctant to paint an entire population as backwoods, ignorant hillbilly rednecks based on one man's experiences.

[S.F. Jude Terror]

I'm reluctant to paint an entire population as backwoods, ignorant hillbilly rednecks based on one man's experiences.

Have you ever been there?

[Rockman]

Have you ever been there?

My family is from there. I've visited there quite a few times in my youth.

Really friendly people, and where more "enlightened" than people try to portray them. These people weren't running out trying to stop every interracial marriage they ran into or whatever stereotype we have.

Sure their are hicks, and some cities are going to be backwards as a whole, but every state has that problem.

[jeremy]

So proud of my home state. lol

[Dragavon]

I think you guys have an innaccurate view of west virginia. It's a beautiful state, with wonderful people in it. This kind of stuff certainly isn't the norm there.

My friends live in Virginia. According to them no one voluntarily goes into West Virginia because all the stereotypes are true.

[Lord Simian]

My friends live in Virginia. According to them no one voluntarily goes into West Virginia because all the stereotypes are true.

To be fair, my family is from New York, and they say the same thing about New Jersey. Plus, you know. It smells like Jersey.

[Rockman]

My friends live in Virginia. According to them no one voluntarily goes into West Virginia because all the stereotypes are true.

So, I'd say the same about Ohio, doesn't mean it's true. States just develop these strange rivalries.