[Reily]

What’s your evidence for this great trend toward the GOP in WV?
My father who was worked for GOP candidates for 50 years see’s very little trend! (The only bright spot is Shelly Moore Capito, who by the standards of many here is quite the RINO! She has to be or she wouldn’t remain in office!)
The current state legislature consists of 4 GOP state senators out of 34 & 19 out of 100 (if I counted them right!) The numbers have NOT fluctuated all that much of the last couple of election cycles.

[fieldmarshaldj]

What’s this “great trend” business ? WV is now a Republican state at the Presidential level, it wasn’t in the past. It has had Republican majorities from time to time. It will again. You’re quite a bit off on the legislative numbers. It has 28 out of 100 House members (lost 4 seats in the ‘06 election) and 11 out of 34 Senators (lost 2 seats in ‘06, but 6 seats short of a tie). Had Watergate not occurred in 1974, it would’ve had GOP majorities by the late ‘70s in the legislature.