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.
But state Democratic Party Executive Director Derek Scarbro said no one has filed to be a delegate for Judd.
The state party also believes that Judd has failed to file paperwork required of presidential candidates, but officials continued to research the matter, Mr Scarbro said. There may also be issues because the man is an inmate in federal prison.
Voters in other conservative states showed their displeasure with Obama in Democratic primaries last March.
In Oklahoma, anti-abortion protestor Randall Terry got 18 per cent of the primary vote. A lawyer from Tennessee, John Wolfe, pulled nearly 18,000 votes in the Louisiana primary.
(Source: Daily Mail UK)
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the one in jail is probably less of a crook then the current administration
he’s 1 step ahead of Obama. he’s already jailed!
More than half the people in West Virginia are illiterate.
(a) Jonathan Pollard and Sholom Rubashkin — whom numerous distinguished American have urged the president to pardon because of prosecutorial misconduct and unreasonably harsh sentences — continue to suffer in federal prisons!
(b) Numerous innocent Americans — many of whom are Jews — who are political opponents of the president, are harrassed by the IRS for thousands of dollars in “taxes” they do not owe. (An innocent neighbor of mine recently got a surprise “visit” from the IRS Police.)
Our future in America depends on ousting the current Communist, anti-Semitic, administration. As the president recently said: As a “lame-duck” he will be free to pursue his agendas during his second term.
And Democrat senator Nick Manchin refused to say whether he voted for 0bama!
More than half the people in West Virginia are illiterate.
Liar.