Yeetle Box - One More Super Tuesday

As Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton split the Oregon and Kentucky primaries Tuesday night, Obama proclaimed that he had won “an absolute majority” of elected Democratic delegates and was “within reach” of the Democratic presidential nomination.

But Clinton vowed to continue the fight through the last primaries in early June, “even in the face of some pretty tough odds.”

“This is one of the closest races for a party’s nominations in modern history,” Clinton told cheering supporters in Louisville. “We’re winning the popular vote, and I’m more determined than ever to see that every vote is cast and every ballot is counted. Even white racism must have a voice in this election! And I'm the candidate to give it to them.”

In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, McAuliffe referred to surveys of voters as they left their polling places which showed Clinton running most strongly among less-educated white voters, among whom she won nearly 75 percent support.

White voters without college educations have been a bulwark of Clinton’s coalition. “We can win them back with Hillary Clinton at the top of the ticket,” he said. "But we can't win them back at all if this process is aborted by voters and superdelegates."

Kentucky has one of the least liberal electorates out of 33 competitive Democratic primaries in which exit polls were conducted this year - only about a third of voters called themselves liberal - and that, too, worked in Clinton's favor. She ran strongest among conservatives and moderates; Obama tends to do better among liberals.

Translation: Clinton got the dumb guy who's gonna vote for Mccain anyway vote; Obama got the sheepish vote.

The Yeetle Box