As expected, Hillary is projected to be the winner in the Democrats' Kentucky primary.
With 75% of the precincts reporting, Hillary is walloping Obama by 34 points, 65-31 percent.
According to exit polls in Kentucky, Hillary won among men, 62-32 percent, and among women, 67-27 percent. Hillary also won across all age groups, income groups and education levels.
Nine percent of the voters identified themselves as African-American and they voted for Obama, 87-7 percent.
The Kentucky exit polls from also found the Democrats' deserter problem getting even worse -- two-thirds of Hillary's supporters said they would vote Republican or not vote at all rather than for Obama:
Forty-one percent of Clinton supporters said they'd cast their vote for John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, and 23 percent said they would not vote at all.Just 33 percent said they would back Obama in the general election, according to the polls.
Those numbers are even worse for Obama than in West Virginia one week ago, where 36 percent of Clinton voters said they would back him in the fall.
Chris Matthews and Tim Russert discuss the early returns in the following video:
According to CNN, exit polls found a majority of Democrats in both Kentucky and Oregon think Obama will be the party's nominee.
Hillary refuses to accept that:
"I'm going to make [my case] until we have a nominee, but we're not going to have one today, and we're not going to have one tomorrow, and we're not going to have one the next day," Clinton said Monday in Kentucky.
Hillary's most compelling argument is that she's won states that have more electoral votes than Obama:
"The states I've won total 300 electoral votes. If we had the same rules as the Republicans, I would be nominee right now," she said. "We have different rules, so what we've got to figure out is who can win 270 electoral votes. My opponent has won states totaling 217 electoral votes."
How can Obama possibly beat McCain if he can't win over blue collar Democrats?
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