Sat Jun 9, 2012, 08:24 PM

W.Va. Dems back Obama at state convention

Source: Charleston Gazette

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When state Treasurer John Perdue urged delegates at West Virginia's Democratic Party State Convention to re-elect President Obama, he received a standing ovation.

After the cheers and shouts subsided, Perdue said he's never going to agree with everything the president does but that Obama has had to make some tough decisions.

"He's never forgotten the people of this nation," Perdue said at the Charleston Civic Center on Saturday. "In November, let's don't forget him."

Support for the president ran strong at the convention, despite recent statements from at least two West Virginia Democratic leaders saying they might not vote for Obama again. During Saturday morning's session, delegates passed a resolution that state and national candidates must support all elected party officials, including the president. Delegates also adopted the party's 2012 platform and approved several other resolutions.

Read more: http://wvgazette.com/News/201206090053

Guess the convention didn't go quite as conservadem Joe LieberManchin would have liked.

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W.Va. Dems back Obama at state convention (Original post)	Adenoid_Hynkel	Jun 2012	OP
W. Va. needs to unemploy asswipe Manchin. n/t	tabasco	Jun 2012	#1
I think we are a little too hard on West Virginia	bluestateguy	Jun 2012	#2
Good point. Interesting.	Pirate Smile	Jun 2012	#4
I just hope they are listening.	Historic NY	Jun 2012	#3
Slightly better showing than the Democratic primary considering an incarcerated	24601	Jun 2012	#5

Response to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Sat Jun 9, 2012, 08:34 PM

tabasco (18,325 posts)

1. W. Va. needs to unemploy asswipe Manchin. n/t

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Sat Jun 9, 2012, 08:41 PM

bluestateguy (40,060 posts)

2. I think we are a little too hard on West Virginia

Fact is that it is an overwhelmingly white state, so those votes cannot be offset by black and Hispanic votes like in other southern and border states. Obama got 41% of the West Virginia white vote in 2008 (only 2% lower than his national average with white voters), but there is little else to offset that there.

Now look at North Carolina, which Obama won. He got 35% of the white vote, but there enough blacks and Hispanics to offset that.

In Virginia, also a blue state, Obama won 39% of the white vote. Same phenomenon at work here.

West Virginia: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#WVP00p1

North Carolina: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=NCP00p1

Virginia: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#val=VAP00p1

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Sat Jun 9, 2012, 11:52 PM

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