http://www.kentucky.com/635/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Kentucky.com en-us Copyright 2008 Kentucky.com Vote results 60 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:54:46 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's Workbench webmaster@kentucky.com http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411460.html http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411460.html Wed, 21 May 2008 14:41 EDT http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411383.html http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411383.html Wed, 21 May 2008 09:54 EDT
Newcomer Rita Smart led the field of 11 candidates with 2,532 votes. Incumbents Robert Blythe, Mike Brewer, William H. "Bill" Strong and Kay Cosby Jones finished second through fifth.

The other challengers to make the November ballot were Ian Ward, Richard Thomas and Michael Bryant.

The top four finishers in November will serve two-year terms beginning Jan. 1.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411349.html http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411349.html Wed, 21 May 2008 09:27 EDT http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411298.html http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411298.html Wed, 21 May 2008 06:39 EDT
Clinton beat Obama by 35 percentage points in Kentucky, after trouncing him by 41 percentage points in West Virginia last week, and has won five of the last seven primaries.

Once all the delegates were allocated from Tuesday's contests in Oregon and Kentucky, however, Obama was expected to be within 60 of the magic 2,026 needed to cinch the nomination. With 80 percent of the vote counted, he was winning Oregon by a 58-42 percent margin.

"Tonight, in the fullness of spring, with the help of those who stood up from Portland to Louisville, we have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America," Obama said Tuesday evening at a rally in Des Moines.

As he nears the Democratic prize, Obama has been concentrating his campaign more and more on John McCain, the Republican nominee-in-waiting, rather than on Clinton.]]> http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411606.html http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/411606.html Wed, 21 May 2008 14:39 EDT
Nationwide projected pledged delegates:

Barack Obama: 1,649
Hillary Clinton: 1,497



Survey of Superdelegates: ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/414800.html http://www.kentucky.com/635/story/414800.html Sun, 25 May 2008 02:04 EDT
When Peters, Kennedy's Kanawha County campaign chairman, first took him around Charleston, W.Va., at least 20 percent of the people refused to shake his hand. So Kennedy spent 16 of the 30 days before the primary showing West Virginians "he wasn't wearing the pope's clothes," Peters said.

The campaign brought in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., distributed 40,000 copies of a Reader's Digest story about Kennedy's heroism in World War II and spread around plenty of money. Kennedy won the primary, which helped propel him to the nomination.

The Obama campaign chose a different route -- a smattering of TV commercials and fliers about his Christian faith, but just one visit by the candidate to Kentucky and West Virginia this year. There was little direct conversation about voters' misconceptions of his religion, or about concerns relating to divisive remarks by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

He lost to Hillary Rodham Clinton in both states by more than 30 points.]]>