WV: Rasmussen: Raese (R) now 7 points ahead

[Vepres]

 He never made much of an effort to court coal workers (or whatever you call them). His relatively strong environmental rhetoric thus seemed to be codeword for "anti-coal" to many of these people, I would imagine, though I would be naive to say race had no part.

As for Manchin, it is a Republican year and state-level popularity doesn't really seem to often translate into increased electability to national office.