Here's what Hillary Clinton's faith outreach director just said about Clinton's victory tonight in Virginia via email:
There continues to be no emerging trend lines other than the one established at the beginning of the Democratic Primary: American faith and values voters connect with and support Senator Clinton. Tonight in West Virginia there is no difference.
But is it true?
Sure, Clinton's enjoyed a huge advantage among white religious voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. But Clinton's West Virginia landslide owed little to the God gap. Clinton won weekly and more-than-weekly churchgoers by 60-percent and 66-percent, respectively. Impressive. But she won similar proportions of infrequent churchgoers and those who sleep in on Sundays--who typically comprise Obama's base--claiming 70-percent and 63-percent of those voters, respectively.
No God gap there.
And Catholics, among whom Obama has been trounced by Clinton in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, broke for Clinton by a much smaller margin in West Virginia, by 52-percent to 45-percent.
Sure, Hillary shellacked Obama in West Virginia today. But religion may have played a smaller role than expected.
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What was missing were the racists voting in this primary. WV has a very small population of African-Americans.
Yeah, the large population of African Americans that simply vote for Obama based on fact he is black and nothing else. Yep, that was missing.
Golly G.
How do you explain Obama's showing in Iowa? Very small population of African Americans, and Obama won decisively.
It seems to me that the Bible Belt is split. The Democrats are running a close race across the line. The Republicans are still hoping for a voice(Mcclain is still very tight lipped).
When push comes to shove, the question is: Who do they end up voting for in November?
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