OBAMA’S WEST VIRGINIA PROBLEM STRETCHES INTO PENNSYLVANIA. “A significant portion of western and central Pennsylvania Democrats declined to vote for Barack Obama in the April primary, an analysis by PoliticsPA has found. The results there resemble those of Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia, where the President lost around 40 percent of the primary vote to no-name opponents or ‘undecided’. A review of county-by-county vote totals show that the President underperformed historic trends, as well as other Democrats on the ballot this year.”