Posted on 05/09/2022 1:32:23 PM PDT by Republicans 2016 2020
When redistricting cast Republican Congressmen David McKinley and Alex Mooney against each other in the new 2nd district, my first thought was McKinley had the advantage.
Every county he had been representing except one was in the new district. His reputation for working across party lines and serving the district gave him strong local ties.
Meanwhile, Mooney seemed hamstrung. His critics dismissed him as a carpetbagger from Maryland who failed to spend enough time building relationships in the communities he served.
That was the conventional wisdom, which I now note is often wrong.
The MetroNews West Virginia Poll we released last week has Mooney up 15-points over McKinley, 48 to 33, with six percent going to the other three candidates and 13 percent undecided.
(Our poll results come from 350 likely Republican and independent voters and has an error rate of +/- 5.2 percentage points.)
It is very difficult to get accurate polling numbers these days, and the smaller sample size means we should view the data as a snapshot in time and not mathematical gospel. However, I do believe they reaffirm that Mooney is in a strong position heading into Election Day.
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McKinley is the Bush League Republican.
People are finally seeing Assistant Democrats for what they are.
“People are finally seeing Assistant Democrats for what they are.”
I sure hope you are correct. From what I am seeing the Democrats are helping the Assistant Democrats where they can. We need MAGA people in Congress.
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