Demographics seem to be destiny in the Democratic primary race. Before the polls closed you could have guessed that Hillary Clinton, as she did in West Virginia, would trounce Barack Obama in Kentucky. A bit more surprising however is how much the Clinton voters in both Oregon and Kentucky don’t like Obama and how clear their preference is for John McCain in the general election.
And those Kentucky exit polls tell the same story we’ve seen before: not only do white voters not like Obama (only 22% voted for him), neither do seniors, frequent church goers, non-college educated voters and the usual roster of groups immune from Obama-mania.
It seems that John Edwards didn’t do the trick.