ANYBODY BUT OBAMA

The State of West Virginia simply does not like Barack Obama.

If you don’t believe it, just take a good look at the photo above.  That is a picture of Keith Judd, a candidate for president who ran against Mr. Obama in the West Virginia Democratic primary.

The fact that someone ran against the president is not an oddity.  But what is abnormal is that Judd is currently serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.  Or in other words, the residents of West Virginia were more willing to cast their ballot for a prison inmate who is incarcerated in another state a few thousand miles away, than to cast a ballot for President Obama.  Hmmm…

Judd was able to get on the West Virginia ballot by simply paying a $2,500 registration fee and filing a notarized certification of announcement.  He ended up garnering 4 out of 10 votes in a presidential primary where President Obama received 59% of the vote to Judd’s 41%. For some West Virginia Democrats, simply running against Obama was enough to get Judd votes.

“I voted against Obama,” said Ronnie Brown, a 43-year-old electrician who calls 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.”

Brown’s 22-year-old daughter, Emily had originally planned to vote for Judd as well, until she found out where Judd has been living of late. “I’m not voting for somebody who’s in prison,” she said.  Although Emily was not sure who she would vote for, she was certain about one thing: “I just want to vote against Barack Obama.”