[wildandcrazyrussian]

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?

[EternalVigilance]

Yep. After 75 years or so of Democrat mis-rule, WV doesn't have a single bluechip company located in the state.

For one thing, the worker's comp rates are the highest in the land. Add to that a judiciary that is stacked with leftists whose idea of fairness is to rape any company that falls into their clutches, and you have a recipe for economic failure.

Gonna take the electoral equivalent of a revolution to turn it around.