Last night embattled Hillary Clinton trounced frontrunner, Barack Obama by over 41 points in West Virginia, pushing to the front burner questions about the much talked about Obama's weakness among a solid block in the party followership.

It is no news that a large chunk of party faithfuls, mostly those loyal to Obama and their cheerleaders in the media have been calling for Hillary to drop out weeks ago. The single-party unity. But one snag is, the Obama supporters and the beltway party pubhas are acting as if the election ends when Obama is coronated.

They are so reluctant to allow those in the remaining five states to exercise their civic rights.

But with yesterdays victory, pundits are taking a hard look at Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, West Virginia. These are considered swing states in the general election.

In the these states, the bitter truth, according to the exit polls, is, majority of the blue collar white workers, those over 65, and white women are not voting for Obama.

And according to polls, 71 per cent of Clinton backers will not vote Obama, while 56 per cent of his supporters will not vote clinton if she gets the ticket.

Wednesday's Quinnipiac polls curiously show that Republican nominee, John McCain leads both Hillary and Obama among white voters.

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Another worry being expressed is that Obama did well among whites before his pastor surfaced.

While on the stomp in Missouri and Michigan, Obama continued to insist Hillary should stay on, while over 65 per cent of democrats want her to see it through. This is curious because sources close to some super delegates, have expressed caution, insisting that forcing out Hillary could upset a solid chunk of their supporters who are reluctant to vote Obama.

. Independent pundits are of the view that democrats should allow Hillary because, first Obama has not reached the magic number-whether its 2025, 2209, Obama leads by about 160 delegates, popular votes is close, and over 200 super delegates are yet to vote.

Sources close to super delegates also hint that the dismissive attitude of some Obama supporters towards Hillary could hurt the party against McCain.

Also, sources close to the party are worried that in past elections, democratic nominees have won the swing states.  Another very troubling truth is Obama is not John Kerry, Al Gore, nor John Kennedy. He is black. So the problem is while the party contends with the issue of Obama's problem with Pastor Wright, Bill Ayers, his bitter comments in San Francisco, his alleged link to Hamas, dodgy position on NAFTA, and position on abortion, gun control, marijuana etc, they will have to work hard, and pray that those hard-line white blue collar guys will hold their nose and vote for Obama in the fall