Kentucky & Oregon Primary Results!

If anyone was hoping the primary results of Kentucky and Oregon would help clear things up, they were deeply mistaken. We've come to another political stalemate, with Clinton sweeping Kentucky and Obama winning Oregon (although not by as much as Clinton won Kentucky).

CNN is reporting that Clinton received 65% of the votes, while Obama came in with 30%. This means that Clinton will receive 37 delegates, and Obama will get 14. Obama won only 2 counties, Fayette and Jefferson (which is where Louisville is). For more information or if you would like to delve, here is the link to the CNN breakdown, which has some interesting stats on sex and age of the voters.

As for Oregon, NY Times is reporting that Obama won 58%, and Hillary won 41%. The diversity of which candidate won which county is amazing, especially compared to Kentucky with Obama only pulling two counties. Here is the breakup by counties, as reported by NY Times:

I'm sure all the television networks have a bunch of horrible racial charts and graphs that show how Oregon voted for Obama because they're more upper class, or there are more blacks, or something and Kentucky went for Hillary because they're blue-collar white workers, and are really feeling the economic crunch. Or something along those lines at least.

Honestly I'm so sick of the way the newsmedia just lumps up the voters into their demographics and then generalizes by saying "This is how white, blue-collar, men between the ages of 18-24/25-55/56+ vote". I wish they would just stick to reporting the statistics as they are actually seen, instead of trying to do all this guess work ahead of time. Although that would put statisticians out of their jobs and the economy doesn't need more unemployed people... so I guess we're stuck with them.