Kentucky exit polls indicate that 21% of KY voters said race was
important. My question is this, how many folks were asked that question, but
didn't respond honestly? I suggest the racist voted yesterday and they have been exposed and it can
no longer be said, with any honesty, that race doesn't matter here in Kentucky.
CNN exit polls indicate that 21% of KY voters said the race of the candidate
was important. Of them, 81% voted for Hillary Clinton, while
16% cast a ballot for Barack Obama.
Meanwhile, 18% of those who said race was important to them were white,
and almost nine of 10 voted for Clinton.
For all the talk of the impact of gender bias in the Democratic contest
and, most notably, in media coverage of the battle, the race of the IL senator
persists as a variable for many rural, white voters.
Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
January 11, 2008 www.ditchmitchky.com
www.bluegrassroots.org If the New Hampshire election is overturned, will the folks that won big bucks give their winnings back?
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton isn't the only person who won big in
New Hampshire.
Online traders who placed a $100 bet on Clinton, the 60- year-old
Democratic senator from New York, were rewarded with payoffs of as much as
$10,000 after her upset victory over Barack Obama in the New Hampshire
presidential primary, trading on Intrade, a Dublin-based online prediction
market, indicated. Read more
Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
January 11, 2008 www.ditchmitchky.com www.bluegrassroots.org To find out more about these New Hampshire primary results click
here and
here. Clinton Optical scan 91,717 52.95%
Obama Optical scan 81,495 47.05%
Clinton Hand-counted 20,889 47.05%
Obama Hand-counted 23,509 52.95%
Kucinich asks for New Hampshire recount in the interest of election
integrity.
DETROIT, MI – Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, the most
outspoken advocate in the Presidential field and in Congress for election
integrity, paper-ballot elections, and campaign finance reform, has sent a
letter to the New Hampshire Secretary of State asking for a recount of Tuesday’s
election because of “unexplained disparities between hand-counted ballots and
machine-counted ballots.”
“I am not making this request in the expectation that a recount will
significantly affect the number of votes that were cast on my behalf,” Kucinich
stressed in a letter to Secretary of State William M. Gardner. But, “Serious and
credible reports, allegations, and rumors have surfaced in the past few days…It
is imperative that these questions be addressed in the interest of public
confidence in the integrity of the election process and the election machinery –
not just in New Hampshire, but in every other state that conducts a primary
election.”
Also, the reports, allegations, and rumors regarding possible vote-count
irregularities have been further fueled by the stunning disparities between
various “independent” pre-election polls and the actual election results,"
Kucinich wrote. "The integrity, credibility, and value of independent polling
are separate issues, but they appear to be relevant in the context of New
Hampshire’s votes."
He added, “Ever since the 2000 election – and even before – the American
people have been losing faith in the belief that their votes were actually
counted. This recount isn’t about who won 39% of 36% or even 1%. It’s about
establishing whether 100% of the voters had 100% of their votes counted exactly
the way they cast them.”
Kucinich, who drew about 1.4% of the New Hampshire Democratic primary
vote, wrote, “This is not about my candidacy or any other individual candidacy.
It is about the integrity of the election process.” No other Democratic
candidate, he noted, has stepped forward to question or pursue the claims being
made.
“New Hampshire is in the unique position to address – and, if so
determined, rectify – these issues before they escalate into a massive,
nationwide suspicion of the process by which Americans elect their President.
Based on the controversies surrounding the Presidential elections in 2004 and
2000, New Hampshire is in a prime position to investigate possible
irregularities and to issue findings for the benefit of the entire nation,”
Kucinich wrote in his letter.
“Without an official recount, the voters of New Hampshire and the rest of
the nation will never know whether there are flaws in our electoral system that
need to be identified and addressed at this relatively early point in the
Presidential nominating process,” said Kucinich, who is campaigning in Michigan
this week in advance of next Tuesday’s Presidential primary in that state.
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