West Virginia Megathread

[Miles]

I don't understand, why should we sing "country roads"?

Because its the state's song.

Here's a link.

[Miles]

Woah, woah, woah. We made a HUGE mistake in this thread-why did we not kick it off with the traditional singing of Country Roads?

If it helps, I just popped open a Diet Mountain Dew just now

[Miles]

New Poll: West Virginia Senator by R.L. Repass & Partners on 2013-08-22

Summary: D: 40%, R: 45%, U: 15%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

[Miles]

The NRCC plunked down $25K for ads running this week against Rahall.

[Miles]

Some people just don't learn:

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[Miles]

And Tennant's site is up!

[Miles]

PPP is offering WV as a polling option.

Its winning, but ya'll should vote for it anyway.

[Miles]

^ Good. She can't start that soon enough.

[Miles]

Well, we saw this coming:

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[Miles]

This is probably to be expected:

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I can see his overall approval being something like 29/59.

[Miles]

From RRH:

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[Miles]

Well, he's been Auditor for 16 years.

The only thing is that there have been recent ethics issues against hi.

[Miles]

Gainer carried this district 59-41 in 2012 against Berkely County delegate Larry Faircloth, who's actually running for Congress next door in CD2.

I'd say Lean R as well; McKinley has a pretty good pro-coal record, so he starts out with the upper hand.

[Miles]

Former CBS news correspondent Ed Rabel is leaving the Democrats to run for the Mountain Party's nomination in CD2. The Mountain Party is the state equivalent of the Green Party.

This guy kinda reminds me of a WV version of TNF:

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[Miles]

Call me pessimistic, but I tend to agree with this guy's column on CD1:

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I think the jury may still be out on the first point, but McKinley definitely has a pro-coal record and Obama will be tough to overcome.

[Miles]

Gainer is a good candidate, but I'd say that CD1 should be the lowest district on Democrats' WV priority list.

They have a better opportunity in the open CD2 (which is also a few points less Republican) and they have to help Rahall, who will be hanging on for dear life this cycle.

[Miles]

If they couldn't beat Rahall with Obama on the ballot, they won't be able to beat him when he isn't on it.

But imagine how Rahall is feeling after last week's results.

In the counties with coal mines, McAuliffe/Northam/Herring performed just as bad, or worse in some cases, as Obama.

[Miles]

Manchin on the EPA's overreach.

[Miles]

FWIW, this was the swing in WV-03 between the 2010 and 2012 Congressional races.



The result in Lincoln County was exactly the same (to the hundredth of a decimal place); it must have been a statistical fluke.

Mason County was added after redistricting.

Rahall still managed to win Wyoming County despite it being 76% Romney. I wouldn't be surprised if thats some sort of a record.

I don't know if its good or bad that Rahall improved slightly in the area where Jenkins is from.

[Miles]

I thought coal was no longer a major commodity in West Virginia?  Why is this going to be an issue?

http://www.friendsofcoal.org/

[Miles]

Rahall taking a page out of Landrieu's book:

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Roll Call agrees with me that CD2 is better for Democrats than CD1.

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Delegate Ryan Ferns (Ohio County) is changing parties to run for a State Senate seat this cycle. This narrows Democratic control of the House of Delegates to 53-47.

[Miles]

Yeah, I think they said this wasn't as great news for Rs as it seems.

[Miles]

The Chamber of Commerce dropped $400K for buys between Capito and Jenkins.