Jailbird Gives Obama a Run for his Money

A wild-eyed felon known as West Virginia prisoner #11593-051 nearly bested President Obama Tuesday in that state’s Democratic primary.

Keith Russell Judd, a federal inmate who was incarnated for violent extortion, won around 40 percent of the vote, according to several reports, highlighting the president’s growing unpopularity in certain circles.

Judd could have earned himself a delegate at the upcoming Democratic National Convention, the Daily Caller reports:

Although party rules would award Judd at least one Democratic National Convention delegate for winning more than 15 percent of the vote, it’s unclear whether he would actually have a voice at the Charlotte, N.C. event since no one has volunteered to represent him as a delegate. Still, the ultimate outsider was leading Obama in eight counties late Tuesday night.

As disaffection with the president grows nationwide, Obama has already suffered one embarrassing defeat in Oklahoma, where anti-abortion activist Randall Terry won 18 percent of votes in that state’s March primary contest.

Judd, otherwise known as "prisoner #11593-051″ at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas, is serving time for "mailing a threatening communication with intent to extort money or something of value" in New Mexico. He was arrested in 1995 and convicted in 1999. In 2000 a federal appeals court noted that he had already "filed thirty-six notices of appeal … [and] no less than 180 motions," all unsuccessfully.

Meanwhile, in North Carolina's Democratic primary, 21 percent of voters said they had "no preference" regarding a candidate, another sign of Obama's plummeting appeal.