It was a rough night.
With 89% of counties reporting, Barack Obama lost 36 Arkansas counties to newbie candidate John Wolfe in Arkansas.
(Obama counties in green)
John Wolfe won 41.5% of the Democrat vote in Arkansas.
In Kentucky, Barack Obama lost 67 counties to “uncommitted.”
(Obama counties in Kelly Green)
Obama only won 52 counties out of 120 in Kentucky with 99% reporting.
And Mitt Romney won a larger percentage of the vote in each state than the sitting president.
ABC-Yahoo reported:
In Arkansas, results are still in the early stages of being counted, but with 33 percent of precincts reporting, Obama has 61.5 percent of the vote, and his Democratic challenger, John Wolfe, a lawyer from Tennessee, has 38.5 percent. Romney, comparatively, has received 69.5 percent of the vote, the AP reported.
Hat Tip Mad Hatter