To: Interesting Times
Pat Morrissey will pick up the seat for the GOP.
Hard to believe in 2000, this was a solid Democrat state.
18 posted on
06/06/2018 2:23:13 PM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
It's also possible that if Al Gore won in 2000, West Virginia would have gone Republican much faster when Gore went after the coal.
Of course, if Gore had won, we wouldn't now have the red/blue meme that came from the Bush Country map of 2000.
-PJ
20 posted on
06/06/2018 2:26:06 PM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
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To: goldstategop
In 2000, West Virginia voted for Bush:
21 posted on
06/06/2018 2:27:44 PM PDT by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: goldstategop
This is like the D’s picking up Texas.
This sucker was as blue is it got not 10 years ago.
To: goldstategop
I think Joe is nervous about his own reelection chances.
How do you play both ends against the middle, trying to be a good Democrat, but hinting at support of Trump?
Trump won West Virginia by something like 40 points. The state is increasingly Republican. Joe’s got a tough road ahead.
To: goldstategop
Before the Depression, it was solidly Republican (like Western PA was).
54 posted on
06/06/2018 4:12:02 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: goldstategop
Al Gore flipped Arkansas, Tennessee, and West Virginia permanently. They saved us from Manbearpig.
59 posted on
06/06/2018 4:30:27 PM PDT by
Luke21
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