RL Repass: Romney Dominates in West Virginia

[Ben Romney]

PRESIDENT – WEST VIRGINIA (RL Repass)
Mitt Romney (R) 54%
Barack Obama (D-inc) 37%

http://www.dailymail.com/News/201204300184

[Tender Branson]

Yeah, it will be tough for Obama to get 40% there this year.

[© tweed]

Yeah, it will be tough for Obama to get 40% there this year.

turnout is gonna suckkkkkkkkk too

[pbrower2a]

Probably about 58-42 for Romney; President Obama is a bad cultural match for West Virginia, a state that can still go for conservative or moderate Democrats who aren't 'exotic' eggheads.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Database entry: https://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/PRESIDENT/2012/polls.php?action=indpoll&id=5420120428154

[Bandit3 the Worker]

President Obama is a bad cultural match for West Virginia

Is the rich guy Romney such a great match?

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

President Obama is a bad cultural match for West Virginia

Is the rich guy Romney such a great match?

Apparently WV knows better than to accept liberal social engineering for the sake of class warfare.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Apparently WV knows better than to accept liberal social engineering for the sake of class warfare.

The only class warfare I see is that launched by the 1% crowd including Romney.

[Chaddyr23]

It's amazing to contrast West Virginia with Virginia and the direction the states are heading economically, socially and of course politically.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So Romney owns WV but is loosing ground in Kentucky?


He isn't a great match for either and were Clinton President, he would probably loose them both to her.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

WV is a state with high undecideds that's traditionally unpredictable in polling. Romney will win, but the state will trend to Obama by default.

[Democratic Hawk]

President Obama is a bad cultural match for West Virginia

Is the rich guy Romney such a great match?

Apparently WV knows better than to accept liberal social engineering for the sake of class warfare.

For the Reactionary Party, of course, class warfare is all fine and dandy when it is waged in favor of the plutocratic elite. Yes, I do favor a return to more Clinton era fiscally responsible levels on the wealthiest. The bills have got to be paid. Spending cuts would have a more detrimental impact on the well-being of the middle class and the poorest

If only George W Bush had built on the Clinton legacy of prosperity, low unemployment and solvent government ... Only an imbecile could have failed to make the most of that. When it ain't broke (November 2000) it sure as hell didn't need fixin'

There's more than the US going through the mill as a consequence of a loss of confidence in the US sub-prime market. Perhaps had US median incomes not declined during the Bush 43 presidency that may never have happened given that sub-primers were more likely to have been of even more limited means, struggling to make ends meet - so spare me any of that for the "sake of class warfare" baloney. President Obama is no radical. Indeed, on the evidence, Bruce Bartlett - a former domestic policy advisor to President Reagan - makes the argument that President Obama is the moderate conservative in a way that President Nixon was the moderate liberal. If there's a problem in Washington, its a Republican Party that has moved way, way, way to the right given the extent to which Reaganites Bartlett and David Stockman are witheringly critical

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Clinton was a deregulatory neoliberal who laid the trap for the eventual recession. Bush not only set the trap but tipped the spikes with poison.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The 1990's growth was primarily among the upper classes thanks to Wall Street deregulation and the internet bubble (note: prosperity never lasts forever, and there will always be recessions. However, the extreme housing bubble pumped by neoliberals and Reaganites created a particularly big pop.)

[Eraserhead]

So what happens if a somewhat prominent white, Christian dude gets on the ballot?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

As the Democratic nominee? It depends. Someone like Sherrod Brown could carry West Virginia despite being quite progressive (Democrats would do much better in the South & parts of the Midwest with Sherrod-esque platform), but I don't expect an Andrew Cuomo to do so well.

EDIT: As an independent against Romney and Obama, you mean? Partisanship is too strong for any independent to carry a state these days, but he could get maybe 5-10% of the vote if it's a national campaign. Ron Paul could do well in the state.

[cinyc]

President Obama is a bad cultural match for West Virginia

Is the rich guy Romney such a great match?

Three words: Senator Jay Rockefeller.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Three words: Senator Jay Rockefeller.

Romney is no Jay Rockefeller.

[tpfkaw]

As the Democratic nominee? It depends. Someone like Sherrod Brown could carry West Virginia despite being quite progressive

Lol, no.

[cinyc]

Three words: Senator Jay Rockefeller.

Romney is no Jay Rockefeller.

If wealth were so important to West Virginians when electing candidates, Jay Rockefeller wouldn't be in the Senate.  He's the third-richest man in the Senate.  West Virginians don't care.  And please spare us the rich Democrats are different because they are for the people nonsense.

[Adam Griffin]

President Obama is a bad cultural match for West Virginia

Is the rich guy Romney such a great match?

Apparently WV knows better than to accept liberal social engineering for the sake of class warfare.

Liberal social engineering from national Democrats is the only reason anyone in West Virginia can remain there nowadays.

So what happens if a somewhat prominent white, Christian dude gets on the ballot?

What about a somewhat white dude and a somewhat Christian dude?

[Brittain33]

If wealth were so important to West Virginians when electing candidates, Jay Rockefeller wouldn't be in the Senate.  He's the third-richest man in the Senate.  West Virginians don't care.  And please spare us the rich Democrats are different because they are for the people nonsense.

Are you familiar with Jay Rockefeller's history in WV prior to being elected to the Senate?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

How's he doing in the deep south?

[cinyc]

If wealth were so important to West Virginians when electing candidates, Jay Rockefeller wouldn't be in the Senate.  He's the third-richest man in the Senate.  West Virginians don't care.  And please spare us the rich Democrats are different because they are for the people nonsense.

Are you familiar with Jay Rockefeller's history in WV prior to being elected to the Senate?

Yes.  He was rich then when running for and serving in state offices and is still rich today.  His wealth didn't matter to West Virginia voters then and doesn't matter now.  Nor does Romney's.

[old timey villain]

It saddens me to see WV drift farther and father away from the Democratic party, as it's clearly based on cultural issues. Still, it would behoove Dems not to ridicule WV. Yes, it's poor. Yes, it's conservative. Yes, it's more isolated. But all of the focus on WV being "racist" I think is misplaced. They still gave a larger percent of white support to Obama than almost any other Southern state. At 42%, the white vote for Obama there was higher than NC, VA and tied with FL.

I think it's ridiculous for West Virginians, many of whom are Union members, to continue to shift to the party that thinks Unions destroy capitalism. But the ridicule West Virginians receive from many elites in the Democratic party and on this forum makes me understand the shift.