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Clinton Wins West Virginia…

by J-Michael Cabosky on May 13th, 2008

In the least climactic race of the season, West Virginia has gone for Hillary Clinton.  Looking at the exit polls, it may get very close to that 40 point margin that I predicted yesterday. 

In even less shocking news, 20% of West Virginia voters openly admitted that race was important to their vote.  These voters obviously voted for Clinton with 90% of the vote. 

Meanwhile…the results don’t change a thing.  The primary remains as dead as ever, the Clinton campaign gets one more day in the spotlight. 

Also, Obama now needs just a few more pledged delegates to officially say that they’ve won 50% of the pledged delegates, meaning, officially, there is NO way Clinton can catch him.  (As of now, she’d need to win something like 172 of the remaining 190 pledged delegates, something that is not even mathematically possible.)

So, hopefully we’re only a few days from ending this thing and moving on to the general election.  I know I’m ready to bid adieu to this primary season.  

UPDATE:

Well, with 97% reporting, Hillary Clinton’s margin seems to be 41 points, 67-26.  Looking back at my prediction of a 40 point margin…it doesn’t seem I did too bad.  I’m now averaging being within a margin of 3.25 points or so per race. 

And goodnight for now…

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