Wet, wonderful WV has a few wet, not-so-wonderful Senators.
I honestly don't know. Laziness, to some extent, maybe. We had a great candidate run against Rocky in 2002, Jay Wolfe, who received about 37 percent of the vote. But Byrd and JDRIV had tons of money, and I don't know of any potential GOP candidates who could scrape together a small fraction of their war chest to mount a strong challenge.