Disgusting irony that we haven’t won the Governorship since ‘96, the last year we didn’t carry the state in the Presidential election. To extend that because this icehole Manchin is still popular, ugh.
Such a shame they will be losing a seat now that we’ve taken over.
And the Governorship wouldn’t have been won at all in 1996 had the far-left in the state not nominated Charlotte Pritt for the Dems. The Dem Establishment backed the safe and non-nutty Republican ex-Gov. Cecil Underwood in the general. It’s astonishing to consider that not since 1928 has a Republican not named Underwood or Moore won the Governorship. Same thing for Senator, not since 1928 has someone not named Moore (-Capito) or Revercomb won a full term (I exclude Hugh Ike Shott, an old Class of 1928’er Congressman, who won the 6-week term in 1942 for the Neely vacancy).
Funny now to realize if WV & VA reunited, the former would push VA back into the GOP column across-the-board.