[Cicero]

He promised to bankrupt the coal industry during the last campaign, and the suckers voted for him anyway.

[samtheman]

Unionized Hillbilly Morons

[Bratch]

They hate Republicans more than they love themselves.

[ken5050]

Can't quarrel with you..the votes in 2008 speak for themselves, but 2010 was a big change, and the trend line favors the GOP. If this was another off-year election, Manchin might have, but with Obama atop the ticket, that's gonna really hurt him.

WVs are so used to voting straight ticket Dem..( thanks to Sheets,)...but that's gonna change. GOP wins the state house, and this time it will be hard for Manchin to explain why they should vote for him...since his firtst votge will be for Reid as leader...Nope, the jig's up for the Dems in WV

BTW, if you want to see another Dead Man Walking..check out Jay Rockefeller...even money he retires...Shelly Capito is already measuirng the drapes in the ofice, and maybe they can take out that filthy, corrupt POS Rahall for a bonus

[fallujah-nuker]

West Virginia voted for McCain in 2008. What killed the GOP was the GOP, the idea that they need to pander on the issue of illegals to appease all those "natural conservatives" who's "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." Hispandering, GOP went for it big time in 2008 and look where it got them? In order to pander to a hostile voting block they work to make the hostile voting bloc much larger in the future. Sort of like letting the 9-11 hijackers take over planes with box cutters, where perhaps a few people would have been killed or injured, and allowing them to have control of the airplanes so they can kill thousands instead.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

It is amazing how many otherwise intelligent people mindlessly repeat propaganda instead of spending 10 seconds looking for the truth.

2008 -- McCain 397,366 is MORE THAN Obama 303,857

2004 -- Bush 423,778 is MORE THAN Kerry 326,541

2000 -- Bush 336,475 is MORE THAN Gore 295,497