Indigestible Appalachia

[igloowhite]

Hillary won West Virginia yesterday. It doesn’t mean a thing for the nomination, the mathematical stakes were settled long ago, what even the narrative crafted by the press. It doesn’t mean a thing for the general election, Obama has plenty of suction in swing states all across the country. The win only has significance for a single constituency,

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[roninspoon]

This article touches on a part of this. The point it makes is rather obvious from the beginning, but it's made a connection to a data point that is pertinent, one that you've touched on as well.

Disapproval like this, like we've seen in the WV primary is a cultural tendency that breaches political and state borders. We, and by extension, the pollsters and the media, tend to forget this. Instead of looking at poll data from representative cultural groups, they look at it in terms of delegates and counties, because that's how the eventual vote is counted.

In my estimation, it's one more piece of evidence that our electoral system doesn't represent the same outcome as a popular vote. This entire primary season has really driven the point home for me. Our electoral system is pretty fucked up.