those hill billies of WVA will elect anyone, as long as they are democrats. Watch your mouth. That's my mother, grandmother, great grandmother and great-great grandmother you are talking about there. We prefer the term "Mountain William".
Nick Joe is a punk. And the heir apparent to Bobby Byrd (who is falling rapidly downhill). I've met the man more than once and watched him campaign a few times. He's the best snake oil salesman in the state.
I wonder if Byrd is sending mixed signals regarding his heir apparent, because I thought he had told Rep. Alan Mollohan from the 1st district he was the guy. Wouldn't it be funny if he had told both Rahall and Mollohan he was passing the scepter to them, and the two of them end up duking it out?