The polls don't give him much of a chance. Rasmussen has it 63% to 30% in a poll on 11 September.
Are they going to debate? If they do, who is going to prop old senator byrdshiite up? He can't stay awake longer than 10 minutes.
I live in WV, and that 63-30 figure soesn't make much sense, since 30% is the base Republican registration, and a GOP candidate always get lots of secretly-Republican Democrat votes. Four years ago, Jay Wolfe with absolutely no RNCC funding, and much more than $100,000 self-raised, got 37% against Rockefeller. Also, Raese has been prominently advertising his pro-gun, pro-life sympathies. (He showed up at yesterday's West Virginians for Life convention and is proud of their endorsement, whereas Byrd has voted pro-life about 10% of the time.)
I agree with the previous comment that all this money rolled into the state in a pork barrel doesn't have anything to do with reinforcing a sustainable economic base.
How much longer will we have the Rocky and Byrdwinkle show?