"“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted,” Obama said during a 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board. Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton also pledged that “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”"
"https://www.countoncoal.org/2016/09/obama-kept-promise-83000-coal-jobs-lost-400-mines-shuttered/"
“I feel no sympathy for Democrats that remain Democrats in WV...after Obama did his best to destroy the coal industry there. Heck, he even stated PRIOR to the 2008 election that he was gonna do it...”
West Virginia, southwestern Virginia and parts of eastern Kentucky — Appalachian coal country — were the Whitest areas of the country which typically voted lockstep Democrat for (only) economic reasons. Other lockstep Democrat bastions had always been urban racist ghetto areas and rapidly ghetto-izing suburban areas, plus ultra-rich liberal country club elitist suburban areas. But even those lily areas were no longer as White as the parts of the country President Bonzo destroyed.
From 2008 and through his first term especially, Bonzo and his tribe of puppetmasters figured (accurately) that pandering to the enviroNazis was well worth the eventual loss of a small handful of congressional seats and electoral votes in Appalachia. And it had the bonus racist benefit of screwing over a lot of Whites who were already pretty downscale economically. Win-win!!!
It’s not about sympathy… this is about just an unprecedented level of rejection of Biden by his own party.
WV is a closed primary state.
Yes the race is over so turnout is light and with light turnout the protest voters wind up way more represented.. but 70.5% by a sitting President in a virtually uncontested and closed primary?!?
I honestly cannot think of any sitting President doing that bad in any state ever, in that situation, at least not in the post war era.
Biden’s support in WV was always weak. He only managed 65% last time, but he wasn’t the sitting President then and the primary was still at least somewhat active… with Bernie still drawing big support.
But to barely manage 70% as a sitting President, in a virtually non contested race and a closed primary?!?
I mean that’s wheels off the truck performance.