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[DrHarleyboy]

West Virginia doesn't like Hillary Clinton

Clinton defeated Barack Obama here in 2008, but didn't come close to a victory on Tuesday, losing to Sanders by a wide margin.

Sanders won handily in nearly every demographic, according to exit polls. He fared strongly among the many voters concerned with the economy and won big margins in coal industry households.

Clinton has tried to clean up her comments from a CNN town hall in March that she wanted to "put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," but the damage had already set in.

The Democratic electorate in West Virginia was easily more conservative than most states thus so far, according to exit polls. But that didn't help Clinton, the more moderate of the two candidates.

Nearly 40% of Democratic voters said they want the next president to be "less liberal" than Obama. Of those voters, 62% went with Sanders -- the self-described democratic socialist.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/politics/primary-results-takeaways/