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Meet Keith Judd, the Felon Challenging Obama

The president lost a whopping 40 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s West Virginia Democratic primary to Judd, an inmate in a Texas federal prison.

The recent admission by two prominent West Virginia Democrats’Senator Joe Manchin and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’that they personally might not vote for President Obama suggested there is some dissatisfaction within the Appalachian state’s branch of the president’s party. And sure enough, the results of last night’s Democratic presidential primary confirm that West Virginians harbor a particular discontent with Obama.

The president won Tuesday’s West Virginia Democratic primary, of course, but he didn’t go unchallenged. In a shocking coup, his competitor’Keith Judd’raked in 40 percent of the vote, the most a Democratic challenger has been able to garner in this year’s primary contest so far.

Keith Judd, according to his apparently self-submitted profile on VoteSmart.org, is a Rastafarian/Christian Democrat whose education allegedly includes degrees from a number of universities, including the University of California, Los Alamos, and the University of New Mexico; he also claims to have ‘attended’ Harvard’s ‘John F. Kennedy School of Politics’ in 1998. He’s been involved in a number of organizations, including something called the Homeless People’s Voting Rights Association and the little-known (and unsearchable) Federation of Superheroes. He claims to be the son of actress Lillian Russell (Russell died in 1922; Judd says he was born in 1958), names Richard Nixon as his favorite president, and lists ‘ESP, Telling the Future’ among his special talents. His favorite website is Google. Judd says that in addition to his current presidential bid, he’s run for commander in chief four other times, mayor of Albuquerque twice, and governor of New Mexico once.

Missing from Judd’s lengthy online biography, however, is the fact that this presidential primary candidate doesn’t actually live in West Virginia, but in a low- security federal prison in Texarkana, Texas.