Inmate gives Obama good run

 CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas is getting 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary.

 The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. With 83 percent of precincts reporting, Obama was receiving 60 percent of the vote to Judd’s 40 percent.

 Judd was able to get on the state ballot by paying a $2,500 fee and filing a form known as a notarized certification of announcement.

 Attracting at least 15 percent of the vote would normally qualify a candidate for a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. But state Democratic Party Executive Director Derek Scarbro said no one has filed to be a delegate for Judd.

 Voters in other conservative states showed their displeasure with Obama in Democratic primaries last March.

 In Oklahoma, anti-abortion protestor Randall Terry got 18 percent of the primary vote. In Alabama, 18 percent of Democratic voters chose “uncommitted” in the primary rather than vote for Obama.

Associated Press