If Barack Obama fails to improve on his margin in West Virginia in adjacent Kentucky tonight, where Hillary Clinton has already been declared the decisive victor, it will be interesting to see whether his campaign draws the conclusion that, among other factors, its pro-coal gambit in the Bluegrass State wasn't worth the trouble.
Over the past two weeks, Obama's campaign has run an ad in Kentucky depicting Obama as a strong friend of the coal industry, recounting his efforts on behalf of coal miners in southern Illinois and touting his success in securing $200 million in the federal budget last year for "clean coal" technologies.
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