At a time of a record defecit it would not be a good sign. A southerner would help McCain sure up the heartlands but he might want to look beyond it.

Huckabee would be on the shortlist but its hard to see what else he brings besides christians and with the Dems planning to make McCain look as much like Bush as possible Christians could end up liking McCain more than they already do.

By a massive, massive margin as well, something like 80-20 to Hillary. It's very much a blue-collar state, and that's always been Obama's perceived weakness - he just doesn't seem to appeal to the core Democratic vote like she does.

And yes, for about a century every President that has been elected has won WV. But, that's in the electoral college, not the primaries. The Democratic elite are worried because whilst Obama can win more states than Clinton in a hypothetical general election, he can't win the 'big' states, mainly because he doesn't appeal to the blue-collar workers as much. And it's traditionally those bigger swing states, like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, that will probably determine the race.

But now Edwards, who the blue-collar workers seem to love even more than Clinton, has endorsed Obama, it should be the final clincher for the remaining super-delegates to back Obama. He IS going to get the nomination, it would tear the party apart if he didn't. It's just his choice of running mate that will become the key issue.

These a primaries to become the nominee for the two parties that will face off in November.

Clinton is saying that she is winning the primaries in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania and these are crucial states in the general election, therefore she is the stronger candidate.

This is not the case. If we take John Kerry for example. He won Iowa in the primary but lost it in the general. He lost Vermont in the primary but won it in the gernal. Hillary narrowly won the Texas primary but there is very little chance either democrat could win Texas in the general election.

So this primary is a small state like West Virginia isn't that significant. The trend has been that no Democrat has won the Whitehouse without winning West Virginia in the General election since 1916 (and even then there was only 1% difference in the vote there).

However Democrats won West Virginia in 1952, 1968, 1980 and 1988 and still lost the general election.

You can also say that no Democrat has won the Whitehouse without winning Minnesota in the General election since 1916 (and even then there was only 0.1% difference in the vote there).

Obama won that state's caucus handily on Super Tuesday in February.

I don't even know how I registered to vote in the UK.

I think different states have there own rules. Probably to do with sending off for forms, getting forms, ticking the boxes of Dem, Rep or Ind and sending it back. Voila. You registered. Maybe.

Maybe not yeah? In the likable stakes i think richardon takes it.

My favourite debate lol was Guilliani talking about abortion and then... actually watch the youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqwKb4cCsg they all join in with the lolz