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Today, Hillary Clinton participated in a “Solutions for the Rural Economy” town hall at the Jones’ family farm in Bath, SD. She was joined by farm-owner Dennis Jones, and his son, Jarrett, who both spoke of the challenges they face and the benefits that the Farm Bill would bring South Dakota farmers.

Hillary reinforced her support for the Farm Bill, which is expected to be voted on in the Senate today, and its benefits for the over 31,000 South Dakota farmers. Hillary also criticized Senator McCain for his opposition to the Farm Bill. Hillary believes South Dakota’s farmers deserve a president who will stand for them. “Saying no to the farm bill would be saying no to rural America,” said Senator Clinton. Yet two weeks ago, Senator McCain made it clear he sides with President Bush, who has repeatedly threatened to veto the Farm Bill. “I do not support [the Farm Bill]. I would veto it," Senator McCain told voters in Iowa.
As President, Senator Clinton will work as hard for the producers of South Dakota as she has worked for the 34,000 family farms in New York over the past eight years. “When Bear Stearns needed assistance, we stepped in with a $30 billion package. But when our farmers need help, all they get from Senator McCain and President Bush a veto threat,” said Senator Clinton.
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Hillary Stays in Race. If Republican Rules were in Place She would be Nominee
5/14/2008 4:00 PM
Hillary vowed to stay in race after her 41 point victory in West Virginia yesterday. She has toned down her remarks on Obama considerably though. She even went so far as to tell her supporters that if Obama is the nominee they should go for him rather than McCain. That is actually a good step in unifying the party if in fact Obama does become the nominee and would help keep her in good standing within the party.

She is still in the running even though the math works against her with Democratic rules put in place. Her supporters have said that she would already be the nominee if the Democrats used the Republican system of picking delegates rather than the distribution system used by the Democrats.

She is right since she has won most of the big states. She would have about 2,300 delegates at this point if that was the case. That is also the way the general election will be run in the fall.
However she and her husband have been leaders within the Democratic party for almost 16 years and if they had a problem with the system they should have changed it. No one also told her to basically skip the caucus states where Obama picked up a lot of his delegates.

She signed on with the Democratic leadership to penaiize Michigan and Florida so she cannot say it was done without her knowledge. One thing she does have going for her is that she will probably be ahead in the popular vote on June 3 and the Super Delegates do have the right to vote for the peron who they believe can beat John McCain in the fall.
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New Poll Shows Either Obama or Hillary Would Easily Defeat McCain
5/14/2008 11:00 AM
According to a new Quinnipiac University poll either of the Democratic candidates would beat McCain easily. Obama was ahead of McCain by 7 points in the poll, 47 percent to 40 percent and Hillary was ahead of McCain by 5 points, 46 percent to 41 percent.

If the poll numbers are to be believed, this is good news for the Democratic Party. Many have thought that the prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination was weakening both candidates in advance of the general election in November.

There are still 5 more primaries to be contested over the next several weeks. In the main three states left to be contested, Hillary is ahead in Kentucky and Puerto Rico and trails Obama slightly in Oregon.

The exit polls form West Virginia showed a badly split party but it did not show in up in the Quinnipiac University Poll which was done between May 8 and May 12.
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Hillary Trounces Obama by 41 in West Virginia
5/14/2008 10:00 AM
Hillary figured to win West Virginia big and she held up her part of the bargain. She trounced Barack Obama by a 67% to 26% margin in the West Virginia state primary held yesterday.

Barack Obama did his best to stay out of the limelight by not even being in West Virginia last night. His internal polling numbers probably warned him of the inpending crushing defeat. He was in actually campaigning in Missouri of all places yesterday.

Hillary Clinton had a huge victory party last night in Charlestown, West Virginia. She reiterated the fact that no Democrat has won the White House without capturing West Virginia since 1916. She can also add to that fact that no Democrat has won the Presidency without winning Kentucky in 48 years. She currently leads Obama by 25 points with the Democratic primary being next Tuesday.
Hillary won the white vote convincingly in the state capturing almost 70% of that vote. The numbers were even more lopsided on her behalf among white voters who did not have a college education where she won by 50 points and by lower income white voters where she also won by 50 points.
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Hillary Trouncing Obama 2-1 in West Virginia
5/13/2008 9:00 PM
With about 15% of the vote in, Hillary Clinton is trouncing Barack Obama by a 63% to 30% margin. Her biggest victory of the campaign so far has been in Arkansas where she beat Obama 70% to 26%. Obama has reached the 70% mark in 5 contests so far in the primary season.

The demographics of West Virginia work well for a Clinton landslide. Bill Clinton is very popular in West Virginia and carried the state twice when he ran for President. White voters who are 95% of the electorate are voting 70% for her. Non-College educated people are also gving her 70% of the vote. Those who said experience was the major issue went for Hillary Clinton, 93% to 3%. On those voters who thought change was the major issue it was almost split with 53 % going for Obama and 45 % for Clinton.
Exit Polls also show a divided Democratic party with only 38% of people voting for Obama saying they would be satisfied if Hillary Clinton was the nominee in the general election and only 25% of Clinton supporters saying they would be satisfied if Barack Obama was the nominee in the general election.
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Campaign Costing Hillary $800,000 a Day
5/13/2008 5:08 PM
In a sign of the escalating costs to be a candidate for President in this country, Hillary Clinton spent close to $24 Million in March. Even with that staggering number she still was outspent by the mercurial Barack Obama who spent $30 Million.

Hillary Clinton is allegedly $10 million in debt on top of the $11 million she has loaned herself. That comes out to her campaign being $21 Million in the hole. Considering her campaign is on life support at this point how can she justify to go on. If the costs keep coming at the same rate as in March she will be spending another $800,000 per day to keep the campaign going.

Considering the last primaries are on June 3, 2008, there are another 21 days which will cost Hillary about $16 million based on the $800,000 per day costs.
One of the reasons she keeps going is that maybe she wants Obama to pay off her campaign debts which as strange as it sounds is a common thing done in the name of party unity. Obama is a fund raising machine and could easily pay off the debt.
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Heavy Voting Reported in West Virginia
5/13/2008 4:00 PM
Heavy voter turnout is being reported in West Virginia. The state is poised to deliver a lopsided victory to Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama. The voters of the state are looking to make history and want to make their votes count. The polls are showing that she has about a 40 point lead. Super Delegates are flocking to Obama feeling he is unstoppable at this point in his quest for the nomination. However people who are supporters of Hillary Clinton think otherwise.

Howard Wolfson who is Hillary Clinton's spokesperson puts it this way "I think Democrats across the country tomorrow will be asking themselves why Senator Obama , with all of his money, with all of the great press, with voters being told he was the inevitable nominee, why did Senator Obama lose West Virginia by 15 points or so?" when asked to comment on Today's probable results on NBC's Today show.
For his part Obama is trying to carry a low profile as he is campaigning in Missouri today. In an ironic twist one of his stops will be the hometown of Rush Limbaugh, the architect of "Operation Chaos" which Obama's campaign allegedly says helped Hillary Clinton pull off the victory in Indiana.
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West Virginia Primary Facts and Figures
5/13/2008 3:00 PM
Taking a quick look at West Virginia and its demogrpahics show that the state is tailor made for Hillary Clinton make quick work of Barack Obama. Most of the voters will be older White working class Americans who tend to vote for Hillay Clinton.

Obama core voters are young voters, college educated voters and African American Voters. All three are in short supply in comparison to the United States as a whole.

College Educated Voter are only 17% of the Electorate versus 25% Nationally.
Median Household Income is $35,000 verus $48,000 Nationally.
3% of the voters are African American versus 12% nationally.
70% of the voters own firearms.

The state has tended to vote Democratic in Presidential elections going for Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996. It did however break tradition in the last two presidential elections in 2000 and 2004 by voting for President Bush.
The "Bitter Remarks" are going to hit home in West Virginia where a large percentage of the population is Christian and an estmated 70% own firearms. Obama does catch one break, for the first time Independents are being allowed to vote in both the Democratic and Republican primaries in the state. There are 28 regular delegates and 11 super delegates on the Democratic side.
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Polls Shows Most Democrats want Hillary to Fight On
5/13/2008 1:00 PM
53% of people surveyed want the Democratic race to go on. Only about a third want the race to end. Not suprisingly 60% of Obama supporters want the race to end but only about 10% of Clinton supporters think the race should end. That is good news for Hillary since she needs to keep the fight going to at least May 31 when the Democrats meet to talk about seating Florida and Michigan.

West Virginia which some say showed America that a mostly Protestant state would elect a Catholic President in 1960 when they went for Kennedy in the primary will have their chance to elect a woman by a large margin as well. “I keep telling people, no Democrat has won the White House since 1916 without winning West Virginia,” she said at Tudor’s Biscuit World in Charleston.
Bill Clinton has been campaigning extensively in the state for his better half and is boasting that she could get 80% of the vote. If an avalanche of that proportion does happen you will be seeing the Super Delegates stop their March to Obama in a heartbeat. The state has gone Republican in the last two elections for Bush but did go Democratic twice for Bill Clinton in the 1992 and 1996.
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