Hillary Clinton Needs West Virginia

Hillary has been busy in West Virginia, making speeches, proving points and driving her campaign in an effort to win the support of West Virginia voters, a tiny state of utmost importance. Currently she is trailing Obama in delegates won, but in years past the winner of West Virginia has stood testament to the future president; no one since 1916 has won the presidency without its backing. The state began polling early this morning (Tuesday, May 13^th) and Clinton is reportedly leading Obama by an average 40 points.

She has a large backing from West Virginia due to their blue-collar workers, upscale voters and small percentage of African Americans. If they were all women Obama would be sunk! Unfortunately, even a landslide victory at this point in the election may not save her. West Virginia has 28 delegates- which is a lot, but she is trailing Obama in all areas. CNN shows that he outranks her in delegates gained, states won and even in the popularity vote, and at this point in the election these shots sting, leaving her campaign out of breath and winded, especially since the support of superdelegates has even shied away, leaving her campaign over $20 million in debt.

Clinton scheduled four appearances in West Virginia on Monday, one of which was at Tudor's Biscuit World, a well loved restaurant with a vast assortment of delicious biscuit delicacies, ranging from fried apples, to pepperoni to any egg mix imaginable, all served on top of warm homemade biscuits. She didn't go there for food though. In fact she didn't even eat. Instead, Hillary signed autographs, posed for pictures and chatted calmly with West Virginians as they gathered to eat a midmorning breakfast, grab coffee or even better, to hear what she had to say.