WV-Gov: Manchin could run in '16

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Ugh, I feel so bad for WV.  Trapped by a decrepit, corrupt, declining industry and their hack politicians.  About their only hope was for another Sen Byrd.  I guess their second best hope is a long population decline.

I dunno, Goodwin's cool, hopefully he runs in 2016.

Goodwin is still very young, but he was considered the most left wing member of the Senate during his tenure. I don't know what his future holds.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Ugh, I feel so bad for WV.  Trapped by a decrepit, corrupt, declining industry and their hack politicians.  About their only hope was for another Sen Byrd.  I guess their second best hope is a long population decline.

I dunno, Goodwin's cool, hopefully he runs in 2016.

Goodwin is still very young, but he was considered the most left wing member of the Senate during his tenure. I don't know what his future holds.

OT, but why do WV politicians always seem to have such hoity-toity names like Carte and Gaston and Jennings and Chapman? Especially considering the general population there seems more disposed to names like, say, Earl Ray.

Carte, Jennings, and Chapman all are/were common names just like Earl Ray. Take my own family from West Virginia for example. My great-grandfathers name was Tammy, my great-great grandfather's name was Hiram, and my uncle, grandpa, and great-grandpa from my other side of the family have or had Preston somewhere in their names. Likewise, my grandmother's mother was named Bertha and my grandfather's mother was named Velma.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Ugh, I feel so bad for WV.  Trapped by a decrepit, corrupt, declining industry and their hack politicians.  About their only hope was for another Sen Byrd.  I guess their second best hope is a long population decline.

I dunno, Goodwin's cool, hopefully he runs in 2016.

Goodwin is still very young, but he was considered the most left wing member of the Senate during his tenure. I don't know what his future holds.

OT, but why do WV politicians always seem to have such hoity-toity names like Carte and Gaston and Jennings and Chapman? Especially considering the general population there seems more disposed to names like, say, Earl Ray.

Carte, Jennings, and Chapman all are/were common names just like Earl Ray. Take my own family from West Virginia for example. My great-grandfathers name was Tammy, my great-great grandfather's name was Hiram, and my uncle, grandpa, and great-grandpa from my other side of the family have or had Preston somewhere in their names. Likewise, my grandmother's mother was named Bertha and my grandfather's mother was named Velma.

IIRC, it is common in West Virginia to often name children using ancestral surnames.

Yeah, that seems to be the case. I'll ask my grandmother about it when she comes over this evening, since she grew up there.

Ugh, I feel so bad for WV.  Trapped by a decrepit, corrupt, declining industry and their hack politicians.  About their only hope was for another Sen Byrd.  I guess their second best hope is a long population decline.

I dunno, Goodwin's cool, hopefully he runs in 2016.

I think his brother or cousin is the US Attorney in Charleston, read the WV papers for a couple of days and you'd think he's putting half the state away for corruption.  Bankers for embezzlement, arson insurance schemes, of course a bunch of rural county elected officials, plus drugs, drugs and more drugs.

I suspect he will run for Attorney General and later Governor in a few years.