The Los Angeles Times has a story today on the strong support that Hillary Clinton enjoys among women in the Mountaineer State and how many of them will not support Obama in the general election.
Some of the money quotes:

“She could turn it around — I hope,” Mary Beth Jester, 41, of Morgantown, equivocated, walking across the parking lot of an IHOP with her two big sisters — three coal miner’s daughters, all for Clinton.

Jester unwrapped the cellophane from a pink pack of Misty cigarettes and lighted up. “Frankly, I think she’s got more” — let’s just say chutzpah — “than Obama,” Jester said, uttering the line she likes to give when people respond to her button: “I’m For Hillary/Ask Me Why!”

Plenty of voters said they would vote for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — or not at all — if Clinton’s name wasn’t on the November ballot.

“I probably won’t vote,” declared Darlene Payne, 51, a coal miner’s wife and mother of three from Buckhannon. She thinks McCain is a Bush copy, and she doesn’t like Obama. “He thinks he’s better than everybody else. He don’t impress me.”

Women make up more than half of the electorate and in some of the primaries they have accounted for 56% of the vote. When will the Democratic leadership wake up and see the problem?