Why are democrats so divided? Obama seems to be the shoe in, yet in Kentucky Hillary won by a huge margin.?

Kentucky demographics are more conducive to Hillary.

And Obama only spent a few hours there campaigning and got 1/3 of the votes.

I'd say that's very impressive, all things considered.

And Obama pretty much has clinched the nomination tonight. He's won the majority of the pledged delegates available.

And Kentucky has been a red state for a long, long time. McCain was going to win that state in November any way.

You have to look at the demographics of each candidate's victories... Clinton does well among rural, less-than-college educated, while Obama earns more urban votes, where there is a higher concentration of college educated, middle and upper-middle class voters.

"Does this in fact show that many Democrats are still not willing to accept Obama as the candidate?"

At the risk of sounding preachy...

I think it's a matter of which Democrats are willing to do the homework and really scrutinize the records of each candidate. Maybe that's why the superdelegates play such an important role... It's not that the post-secondary crowd is necessarily smarter, but that the SDs will help make the decisions that the "disinterested" or "uninformed" are unable to make.

The DNC really screwed up.. that is what you are seeing. There are people with a lot of money working behind the scenes. And for their own reasons they have pushed Obama before he was ready and now we have a mess. Clinton's supporters know that she is the strongest and best candidate at this time in history. But Obama was being pushed ahead, not necessary by himself but by those behind him. The party and the power brokers with money make the candidate. And now we have a situation where they have pitted a woman against a Black man. Instead of working to get a woman elected first and then a Black man, their supporters are fighting to the death for the one piece of the pie and the Republicans are happy as hell. How could my party be so damn stupid as to get into this mess??

The reason Hillary won is becouse of the fact that Obama didn't show up in the state to campaign nor sell himself to the voters. At the sametime,which was real stupid mistake,Senator Obama made a swipe at Fox News at the fact that the voters watched the news channel for information.I believe that is what worked against Obama here. If one look at polls in Kentucky and West Virginia, race did play a factor.

It became clear that McCain would be able to get enough delegates to win the nomination.

It appears that neither Barry nor Senator Clinton will go into the convention with enough delegates to win on the fist vote.

Barry had a lead but isn't able to seal the deal.

fs

Obama will NOT be accepted by a good 20-25% of the Democratic voters. In fact, there may be an even greater defection than that.

If Obama were really the obvious choice of the party, the rest of the states would be falling like dominoes. (Oops, I'm sorry, dominoes are black with white dots. I don't mean anything racial about that! OMG, I used a metaphor that involved the color black. I may be assasinated.)

you must be a youngin because this is the closest race ever to be a canidate. oddly enough there was a bigger fight over a wider spread in 79-80 between incumant president Carter ant Ted Kennedy..........also the dems need to make it a winner take all or a winner takes most because this stupid crap of winning a state and getting less than the loser and a loser winning delegates and not even winning a single portion or the state is a bit retarded.

all the states forged their votes for the guy who's the suitable winner next week Michigan won't forged all its votes for Mitt Rommey even nevertheless he trounced McCain in Michigan. comparable with countless different states. The elections are over it somewhat is in basic terms the formal medal presentation in case you opt for for to apply the Olympics as an occasion. no person is finding out something, they are in basic terms asserting their applicants and displaying help for the alternative and that's person. adult adult males think of of your self like people who 3 months after the Olympics are nevertheless insisting by some skill somebody is going to bypass returned and supply somebody else the Gold Medal because of fact which you do no longer in basic terms like the outcomes. it might desire to no longer happen. Obama gained the properly known vote, the pledged delegates that are based on the properly known vote and the election. And grow to be triumphing over superdelegates. i'm sorry which you do no longer in basic terms like the outcomes inspite of the indisputable fact that that's over and positively grow to be over in February whilst Hillary did no longer do double digits in Texas. That made it somewhat much a mathematical impossibility till the tremendous delegates skipped over the will of the folk and substituted Hillary inspite of the actuality she did no longer win. that's actuality no longer spin, no longer extraordinary procedures of counting that left the ten caucus states out. no longer each and all of the video games and manipulation. each vote counts and each vote grow to depend and Hillary misplaced. Time to circulate on.

McCain got 1% of the vote in West Virginia and lost Utah by 85%. I don't think the Republican are willing to accept McCain as the candidate.

I think it just goes to show you that sometimes people wake up are realize they have put their shoes on the wrong feet.

McCain has had the Republican nomination for months if the Republicans did not back John McCain they too would still be in the middle of a primary. To me this tells me Republicans know who they want in the Whitehouse while Democrats are so divided they will never unite behind one candidate in November. Many Many democrats will cross the party line in the general election . Thus giving McCain the leg up to win