> Hillary Clinton's win in the WVa primary was not, it seems, a surprise.
>
> But the report of her win was accompanied by press garbage which went
> beyond the statement that the results showed her getting 67 percent of the
> vote while Obama took 26 percent of the vote. I've not yet found whether
> this was an "open primary" - which means I don't know how many of the
> voters were republicans , in the sense that I don't know how many of the
> 67%% who voted for Clinton yesterday would vote for McCain in the
> presidential election
>
> My sense of press-generated garbage comes from reports like this:
>
> "(Obama) had difficulty attracting white working-class
> voters who have flocked to Clinton's side in the past few months.
>
> " Exit polls showed Obama, who would be the first black president,
> won support from less than one-quarter of white voters without a
> college degree. <http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4850922>
> ...