Biden only managed 70.5% of the Democrat primary vote in WV.

[HamiltonJay]

I am not 100% certain, but this may be an all time low, at least in the modern era.

Biden just won the WV primary with only 70.5% of the vote.

WV is a closed primary state and Biden, a sitting president, who has virtually run an uncontested campaign, just lost nearly 30% of the Primary Vote in WV.

Turnout, expectedly was low, since the race is already decided, but that's true everywhere now... This is brutal. Sitting Administration, uncontested, and lost nearly 30% of the vote in a closed primary?

I don't think I've ever seen anything like that in either party in my lifetime, not a sitting administration in a virtually uncontested race

[Uncle Miltie]

Crime.

Inflation.

Illegals.

[Lockbox]

Turnout, expectedly was low, since the race is already decided, but that's true everywhere now... This is brutal. Sitting Administration, uncontested, and lost nearly 30% of the vote in a closed primary?

I love the Obfuscation of using turnout numbers to explain a change in percentage of votes. Man their readers are stupid!

[struggle]

2020 - Biden 122k votes
2024 - Biden 67k votes

-50%

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, speaking of WV, a bit of news from January...

West Virginia Secretary of State: All counties to have electronic voting machines for first time during 2024 elections

Nice timing, eh?

[oldtech]

I guess we can see why & how it is possible that Biden might win the vote in WV this year. Normally, I could not see him winning the vote in any state, but the machines might make a difference. Every person in every state can see how the economy & other things have been going, so what reason...in a FAIR election...is there to think that Biden would win any election?

[mewzilla]

Deep State isn’t taking any chances.

And high tech is the only way to steal a landslide.

[HamiltonJay]

I know I said turnout was low, but still 70.5% is abysmal

[cnsmom]

It was cold and rainy too.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Crime.
Inflation.
Illegals.

No No No! Think POTUS Kamala.

[outofsalt]

It was none of those things, Uncle!
It was Nikki Haley. Unelectable, No Joke, man
(The media line on Trump. One of many...)

[moovova]

I feel no sympathy for Democrats that remain Democrats in WV...after Obama did his best to destroy the coal industry there. Heck, he even stated PRIOR to the 2008 election that he was gonna do it...

"“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted,” Obama said during a 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board. Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton also pledged that “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”"

"https://www.countoncoal.org/2016/09/obama-kept-promise-83000-coal-jobs-lost-400-mines-shuttered/"

[PermaRag]

“I feel no sympathy for Democrats that remain Democrats in WV...after Obama did his best to destroy the coal industry there. Heck, he even stated PRIOR to the 2008 election that he was gonna do it...”

West Virginia, southwestern Virginia and parts of eastern Kentucky — Appalachian coal country — were the Whitest areas of the country which typically voted lockstep Democrat for (only) economic reasons. Other lockstep Democrat bastions had always been urban racist ghetto areas and rapidly ghetto-izing suburban areas, plus ultra-rich liberal country club elitist suburban areas. But even those lily areas were no longer as White as the parts of the country President Bonzo destroyed.

From 2008 and through his first term especially, Bonzo and his tribe of puppetmasters figured (accurately) that pandering to the enviroNazis was well worth the eventual loss of a small handful of congressional seats and electoral votes in Appalachia. And it had the bonus racist benefit of screwing over a lot of Whites who were already pretty downscale economically. Win-win!!!

[The Old Hoosier]

Something like 20% of Dem voters went for Blankenship in the Senate race. That pretty much says it all.

[scrabblehack]

Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden, Jr. 67,675 70.47%
Jason Michael Palmer 11,021 11.48%
Stephen Patrick Lyons, Sr. 7,359 7.66%
Dean Benson Phillips 7,193 7.49%
Armando “Mando” Perez-Serrato 2,779 2.89%

[phormer phrog phlyer]

I voted yesterday in WV, had the option of paper ballot or electronic, I chose a paper ballot.

[HamiltonJay]

It’s not about sympathy… this is about just an unprecedented level of rejection of Biden by his own party.

WV is a closed primary state.

Yes the race is over so turnout is light and with light turnout the protest voters wind up way more represented.. but 70.5% by a sitting President in a virtually uncontested and closed primary?!?

I honestly cannot think of any sitting President doing that bad in any state ever, in that situation, at least not in the post war era.

Biden’s support in WV was always weak. He only managed 65% last time, but he wasn’t the sitting President then and the primary was still at least somewhat active… with Bernie still drawing big support.

But to barely manage 70% as a sitting President, in a virtually non contested race and a closed primary?!?

I mean that’s wheels off the truck performance.