West VA is not the midwest. ;p
About Iowa-3, something I just remembered, a candidate needs 35% to win the primary or else it goes to a party convention, that happened with Steve King’s seat in 2002 which had a tight 4-way primary.
This is funny,
Guess who one of the rats running for MI-11 is, Nancy Skinner! The blond moonbat radio talk show that was one of the minor candidates against Obama in the 2004 rat Senate primary.
She was rat nominee against Joe Knollenberg in 2006 and lost 54%-46%.
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19138
She has no chance in the rat primary this time.
that WV seat is so gerrymandered, it starts in the northeast, winds thru the Midwest and ends up in the south.
WV is probably the most difficult state in the Union to classify by geographic area. Many place it in the South because of the local accent, but WV never had any slavery to speak of, seceded from VA during the Civil War, never formed part of the Solid South (in fact, it vited strongly Republican until the coal miners unionized a d the New Deal), and has virtually no black population (much less the rural black population characteristic of Southern states).
For this reason, I classify WV as Northeast, aling with bordering MD and PA, but acknowledge that culturally it is an odd duck there as well. And I mean this not only politically, where it is socially conservative and economically populist; if we look at the map of counties where a plurality generically refers to carbonated be erages as “soda,” “pop” or “coke,” only in the counties in WV’s Eastern Panhandle (historically linked to the MD Panhandle, and increasingly Washington, DC exurbs) do residents predominantly use the term “soda” that dominates throughout most of the Northeast, and only a couple of counties have a plurality that uses “coke” as the generic term; for most of WV, the term of choice is “pop,” which is the term used throughout the Midwest (except for the Milwaukee and St. Louis areas, where they inexplicably call it “soda”—must have been a German thing). So WV outside the panhandle is no less “Midwestern” than Western PA.