How unpopular can Obama get? Texas INMATE gets 40 per cent of votes against President in West Virgin

[Jazzy]

Just how unpopular is President Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in a Texas prison received four out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.



Inmate Keith Judd, 53, is serving 17 years for extortion at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution. He was sentenced in 1999 for making threats against the University of New Mexico and is due to be released on June 24 next year.



With 93 per cent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving just under 60 per cent of the vote to Judd's 40 per cent.



For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama is enough to get Judd - or Inmate Number 11593-051 - votes.



'I voted against Obama,' said Ronnie Brown, a 43-year-old electrician from Cross Lanes who called himself a conservative Democrat.



'I don't like him. He didn't carry the state before and I'm not going to let him carry it again.'



When asked which presidential candidate he voted for, Brown said: 'That guy out of Texas.'



Judd was able to get on the state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form known as a notarized certification of announcement, said Jake Glance, a spokesman for the Secretary of State's office.



According to the Charleston Gazette, Judd circulated his political standpoints to local media. These include opposing national health care reform on the grounds that it violates the 10th Amendment.



He also cites the U.S. Constitution, saying that incarcerated felons should not be disqualified from voting.



Judd is housed at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Texarkana, a low-security facility for male prisoners. It is located in northeast Texas near the Arkansas border, 175 miles east of Dallas.Attracting at least 15 per cent of the vote would normally qualify a candidate for a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...bama-West-Virginia-primary.html#ixzz1uOE8f4LZ

 

[DrLeftover]

I don't think that'll be the lead story on the network TV news in the US tonight.



Maybe on that disgusting channel full of haters, but not on NBC or one of them.

 

[Evil Eye]

Great to see people voting like that... <.<

 

[Bluezone777]

I think this alongside the excessively long Republican primary season only shows that the people are getting sick of both Romney and Obama. No one really likes either all that much but they will most likely give Obama another term because people tend to want to stick with the familiar especially when the other choice isn't seen as likely to be any better.

 

[DrLeftover]

It isn't just the Republican primary season that is that long. The entire process is overblown and too long, too expensive, and too wearying for both the public and the candidates.



Most states have dual primaries, and if there is any challenges to sitting incumbents in any office those are on the ticket as well. Such as the case currently under discussion.