Justice would beat anyone but Manchin.
In addition to beating anyone not named Manchin, he'd also beat Manchin.
That's most likely false.
Why? If Manchin just scraped by in a good year for Democrats as the incumbent against a weak opponent, why would he win as a challenger in a year that likely won't be as good for Democrats?
This is still the statewide subforum, right? There is your answer. It's kind of funny to see the responses here of DEMOCRATS who are almost proud to talk about how their candidates have no chance here because the state has too many undesirables to possibly vote for their party.
The party of the people!
And people accuse
me of using strawmen
. Show me where I talked about "undesirables" or "hicks" in my post. I'm simply accepting reality, that 2018 will almost certainly be the last statewide victory for a Democrat in West Virginia for a while. Democratic victories in strongly Republican states have been very few and far in between, and have usually been the result of extremely favorable circumstances. Interesting that you would attack Democrats for not being the party of the people, when Republicans regularly use the most populous parts of the United States as political punching bags.
