Is that all it takes to turn Kansas blue?  Well, then, heck -- why didn't the Dems just put a purty  Kansas woman on the ticket before?  Y'know, it's not at all the same as putting a New York woman on the ticket.  Naw.  What would that bring to the ballot?

Arizona
Arkansas
Florida
Kentucky
New Hampshire
Ohio
Tennessee
West Virginia
Nevada
Louisiana
Missouri

Answer: Bill Clinton carried all of them in 1996 ... and they went Republican in both 2000 and 2004... AND,

... Hillary won 9 of the 11 - 82% - in these elections and only lost Missouri by 1.4% (11,000 of 802,000 total votes)  but she won 110 out of the 115 counties. And, recent polls showed Clinton leading McCain in Missouri.

She won the first 9 states listed. Her margin of victory, 1,160,449 votes out of 6.3 million cast... a whopping 18.5%.  Those states represent 96 Electoral votes.

Of them, truly Arizona is the only one off the table in the General - because it's McCain's home state - and as an Arizonan, I know McMain is popular here and will hold AZ.

However, those other 8 states she won hold 86 EV - a full 32% of the 270 needed to win back the Whitehouse.

So, can Hillary help Obama in Appalachia? Yes, and in many other states too.

But as I said in another post: He's the Presumptive Nominee and thereby should be able to stand and deliver on his own strength and merits!

Oh, wait a minute: he won based on a highly disproportional pledged delegate system that filters-out or completely locks-out nearly 1.9 million would-be voters in the 13 states that gave him a buffer of nearly 300,000 votes and 152 pledged delegates.

He won through the caucus system. Those states that can help you rack you a lot of delegates based on very low turnout and votes... but alas only have 74 total EV.

Oh, and he won in 80% of the deepest-Red states that Democrats haven't won since 1964 to 1976.  22 of his 30 states-won were Red states or caucus states!

It's finally for some truth-telling and medicine-swallowing:

Obama based his strategy on winning the Dem nomination - NOT on keeping his eye on the ultimate prize, the Whitehouse ... like Hillary had the wisdom to do!

NOW, his near-sighted strategy is going to haunt him.

So, like I mentioned in a different post: Let that guy iron his own shirts!!!

Boy, payback's a barack isn't it?

I think that solves a very small percentage of the problem. I think the problem is much much bigger than being implied. I don't think HRC's "Appalachia" support was so much pro-HRC as it was an anyone-but-Obama vote and HRC was the only alternative. With Obama atop the ticket, I don't think Clinton nor anyone else solves most of the problem.  

For real.

THAT is called REAL unity.

Like others have said above, Obama already laid waste to the entire Clinton legacy and dissed them both ten times to Sunday.  McCain, on the other hand, has extended the olive branch and has (lately) been civil and respectful of Clinton's accomplishments.

There IS such a thing as a split ticket.  Clinton doesn't have to give up her Dem label to run with a Republican.  

Give me a break!

That poll meant the folks were mad as heck at the way they had been treated by the media and by his campaign.  Plus, it made no news in the previous polls when the majority of people saying gender or race being a factor voted for Obama.

let's be blunt here, sen. obama ran a "winning" primary campaign, with no thought whatever to anything beyond that. he's managed to completely alienate the very voters he needs to win in the GE, and no amount of attempted damage control is going to change that, between now and nov. 4th.

I've listened to Obama and was willing to vote for him as an alternate but after the DNC's decisions, politicians at the top that ignore the whole political election process and tell Hillary to wind it up by the end of the week, and a media that is pretty much owned by the wealthy and not to be taken seriously ever again, I'm not voting at all for the first time in my life.

That and the fact that I am from Michigan and after giving monthly donations to the Democratic party for two years my vote was cut in half because Obama failed twice to put his name on our ballot. Then to insult me more, MI Reps/politicians who I once admired gave away Hillary's delegates to Obama.