you, smart: ah but WV is Different now in ways that I will not explain in any detail me, dumb: over the same time period is anything Different about the Democratic Party or
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any dem who wants to get elected in wv will have to shoot stuff and vote bad manchin has already put in the work
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To the extent that it is impossible for other Democrats to win there now, Manchin himself has played a key role in that by sandbagging people like Charlotte Pritt and giving fuel to the “war on coal” shit
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Right, people shoot back with "Well Byrd was elected in a different era" but I dunno has anyone tried running on what made him popular, an absolute commitment to bringing as much Federal pork to WV as humanly possible? Or have they run on "I'm moderate let's watch the deficit"?
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Democrats had all congressional seats, the governorship, and both houses of the legislature until very recently.
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huh I wonder what changed? It must be that WV voters are all stupid and racist.
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me, realist: Manchin isn't really a Democrat and he doesn't really care which party is in power as long as he is.
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Manchin has been in the Senate for 8 years, and has spent 6 1/2 of those years in the minority. If he cared for power, he would have flipped parties.
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Have you considered that almost 70% of WV voted for Trump?
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