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Against Obama, Even a Jailbird Gets Some Votes

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CHARLESTON (AP) -

Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas is getting nearly 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.

The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999.

Voters in other states showed their displeasure with Obama in Democratic primaries last March.

In Oklahoma, anti-abortion protestor Randall Terry got 18 percent of the primary vote. A lawyer in Tennessee, John Wolfe, pulled nearly 18,000 votes in his state's primary.

In Alabama, 18 percent of Democratic voters chose "uncommitted" in the primary rather than vote for Obama.

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