WVA is a GOP state.
Last time it went D was in 1996.
It seems they vote differently foe POTUS & Legislature.
The Manchins have been in WV politics since 1982. Manchin won Byrd’s seat. WVU gave his daughter, Heather Bresch, a fake masters degree. She’s the head of the pharmaceutical company that’s making a killing from Epipens. Time for the Manchins to retire.
WV is a southern Appalachian state and local politics run toward Democrat, state level too, typically. They flipped back in the Nixon era along with the rest of the south, but not from Democrat to Republican, they went the other way after having been staunch Republicans from the Civil War onward. Their going Republican once again is a fairly recent phenomenon in the greater scheme of things. Mountain people are very traditional but that doesn’t always translate into conservative Republican as we understand it. That WV is as red as it is today is solely due to the very sad state of their economy under Obama. If they’d have been doing well the union streak would have come back to the fore.
WV won’t vote for anyone that’s anti-gun and as Hillary found out anti-coal. The Manchin family needs to be put out to pasture. Gayle got on the public tit when her husband was governor. She should have been moved out before this. Here’s hoping the epinephrine price gouging will help smoke Joe out of office.