With votes counted from 90 percent of Kentucky’s precincts, Clinton was gaining 65 percent of the vote to 30 percent for Obama.
Almost nine in 10 ballots were cast by whites, and the former first lady was winning their support overwhelmingly. She defeated her rival among voters of all age groups and incomes, the college educated and non-college educated, self-described liberals, moderates and conservatives.
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Dan Kelley says:
Lost amongst the political spin, trivial pundit commentary and factual minutia and campaign trail detritus is this one overlooked detail: Barack Obama CANNOT win the Democratic nomination outright before the convention WITHOUT the votes of the superdelegates. Obama the inevitable cannot muster the minimum number of delegates necessary to lock up the nomination solely on the basis of the caucuses and primaries. He will need to appeal to the superdelegates to put him over the top. Remember, how often Obama and his staff have said that it would be wrong for Hillary Clinton to attempt to do the same thing?
Perhaps Obama feels that he is entitled to the superdelegate votes as a form of affirmative action while still seeking to bar the delegations from Florida and Michigan from being counted.