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Bypassing West Virginia

Justin Webb | 03:06 UK time, Wednesday, 14 May 2008

With respect to West Virginia, this from was pretty devastating I thought:

"Ninety-five percent of voters in preliminary exit poll results were whites, just under a third were college graduates - among the fewest in any primary this year - and 55 percent had household incomes under $50,000, among the most in primaries to date."

Now none of that suggests that these people's views should not count, but they are not on the cutting edge of America's future nor of the Democratic party's future.

Democratic strategist (and Clinton supporter) Paul Begala warns the party off the idea of relying on "eggheads" and African-Americans as the only way to go, but the fact is that Obama could write off West Virginia and concentrate instead on, say, Colorado, or even Virginia (a much bigger prize).

Eggheads, African-Americans and suburbanites would be a perfect coalition and a winning one. Don't believe me? Go back to the wonderful and do your own math(s)!

Meanwhile, Obama is stressing the future in this which documents an impressive effort to register new voters which could (let us be frank) allow him to bypass West Virginia - if that is what he needs to do in November.

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