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| Mon, 05/19/2008 - 21:28 |
Part 1:Feature
As Senator Obama is expected to win in Oregon, Senator Hillary Clinton is expected to win today's primary contest in Kentucky. In neighboring West Virginia last week, Senator Obama received only 27 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, media reports of verbal and property damaging racial attacks on Barack Obama's Presidential campaign are on the rise. One US Representative from Kentucky has seen it first hand. Matt Laslo reports from Washington.
Part 2: Interview
For a look at the on the ground contest in Kentucky, Election Unspun producer Karen Miller spoke with Ryan Alessi political reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader (the second largest newspaper in Kentucky) about the Clinton and Obama supporters there and why Kentuckians are so fired up to have their primary votes counted, for the first time in twenty years.
