Kentucky Results Thread

We have results:

224,606-vote margin for Clinton

√ Hillary Clinton: 444,642 votes (65 percent)
Barack Obama: 204,066 votes (30 percent)

97 percent reporting as of 9:30 PM Eastern

Stick around MyDD throughout the night as we update the news on tonight's two primary elections.

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NBC News Calls Kentucky for Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton will win Kentucky, according to NBC News (Marc Ambinder has the same story too).

Update [2008-5-20 19:6:45 by Josh Orton]: On CNN, Blitzer says their exit polls show upwards of a 30pt. margin in Kentucky.

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Breaking: Early Exits Show Division!

Yes, the title is meant to be sarcastic. While the media will inevitably frame the division found within the early exit polls out of Oregon and Kentucky released today as "Democrats divided," (in fact, they already are) what we're seeing is actually a nation divided -- the stark differences that exist between the voters in two very different parts of the country.

In Kentucky:

In Kentucky, just 33 percent of Clinton voters said they would back Obama in the general election if he is the Democratic nominee - 41 percent said they will vote for McCain, and another 23 percent say they won't vote.

Meanwhile, in Oregon:

Oregon voters felt differently on that question, according to the exit poll. A majority of Clinton and Obama voters in the state would be satisfied if their opponent got the nomination. And 68 percent of Clinton voters say they will back Obama in the general election if he is the nominee and 80 percent of Obama voters say they will back Clinton in the general election.

Last week, the media's narrative had no counterbalance or context to it since WV was the only contest, so they merely projected the West Virginia results onto the the nation as a whole; tonight, thank goodness, the media will have Oregon to serve as a reality check.

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Hillary Clinton Going All In In Kentucky

Hillary Clinton held an event in Frankfort, Kentucky today and, according to CNN, intends to be there tomorrow and Monday as well, perhaps event through election day on Tuesday.

More from The Swamp:

[T]here will be no head-to-head combat before Tuesday's voting deadline in Oregon's vote-by-mail primary. After dropping in for a day of made-for-TV campaigning, Clinton scrapped her Saturday plans here and headed for Kentucky, which also votes Tuesday. That leaves Barack Obama alone in this state all weekend, starting today with a rally in the Southern Oregon town of Roseburg, and continuing tomorrow in Portland and rodeo hub Pendleton.

Say what you will about Clinton's schedule, but know this: Some of her allies say privately it's not close to the full-court press she would need to upset Obama in Oregon.

While, as Poblano notes, both Survey USA and ARG have the race in Oregon dead even among voters who say they have already cast ballots by mail, RCP gives Barack Obama a 14 point lead there.

Clearly the Clinton campaign thinks there's no catching Obama in Oregon and instead has decided to let Tuesday play out as expected -- 1 win apiece -- but hopefully exceed expectations in Kentucky as she did in West Virginia last week, exploit the "he's ignoring Kentucky" factor and try to come out of Tuesday with a gain in the popular vote.

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