Her claims regarding Keith Judd? “In her court filing, Taitz claims that Judd would be the Democratic Party nominee if Obama was removed from the ballot and could not be voted on by the Electoral College next week.” *blink*
Last night, a guy from Tennessee named John Wolfe Jr. scored 42 percent of the vote against Barack Obama in the Arkansas Democratic primary. Who? Exactly. (If you’re curious, read up over here.) But that said, it’s not the first time that’s happened in this election. This map, thrown together by Wikipedia, shows Obama’s victories by county in the 2012 primary season. A very interesting story being told here — “uncommitted” did very well in Kentucky, anti-abortion activist Randall Terry got a solid number of votes in Oklahoma, and prison inmate Keith Judd did well in West Virginia. But Wolfe, a serious but long-shot candidate, actually did better in Arkansas in 2012 than Hillary Clinton (who, remember, is from that state) did in 2008. To be clear — Obama has this in the bag, and these are states he doesn’t need to win in November, so Wolfe doing well is symbolic at best. But still: A bizarre but fascinating phenomenon.
» 41 percent of the vote in the WV Democratic primary: Keith Judd, who has been in prison on extortion charges for over a decade, found himself scoring an unlikely level of support against President Obama last night — in what was likely intended more as a statement against Obama rather than one in favor of a guy who has run in every presidential campaign since 1996. Judd’s expected to be released in 2013, so if he did beat Obama, he might be out of prison in time to take office.
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