Capito is conservative enough and once the seat goes red it won’t go back for a long time. This is one time I’m not going to be a purist unless some stellar alternative arises and there isn’t any. WV is a conservative state.
Rahall’s margin of win continues to shrink with each election cycle. I think this next one has the potential to be the one that finally does him in. He won by 8 points in 2012 against a political neophyte in contrast in 2008 he won by 34 points. So the race is going to be highly competitive and deserves huge focus not just locally but from national GOP who notoriously fail to understand how to win in WV which is though being personable and shaking hands and having cookout events etc and making people feel you care about them and their plight. That of course would help the GOP throughout America but they seem to love the stick up the butt stiff upper lip approach.
I too would vote for Capito in the general if I was there (mainly because I think Tennant is a lurker who might pull a Manchin). However SCF has refused to back her, and it does seem like kind of a waste, what with the seat being essentially a lock.
Oh well. I guess I can settle for it if we get a Tea Partier in North Carolina and perhaps Louisiana, and we replace RINOS like Gayham, McConnell and Alexander.
Any potential challengers for Rahall yet? Id’ like to increase our House majority, if only by a few.