Wait a minute, hasn't West Virginia gone red?
It has gone red only because no one but Manchin has given them an excuse to vote democrat.
Outside of gun control and coal, Manchin votes no different from Chuck Schumer or Harry Reid.
Nick Joe lost because of the overwhelming revulsion every normal person feels toward our jug-eared president, and Nick had never before in his entire career had to campaign for office.
In the heart of the most depressed, desperately impoverished counties in the country, McDowell, Mingo, Logan, Boone, etc., people still declare themselves to be democrat by a near ten to one margin. Ten to one.
They live in Byrd trailers, go to the Byrd community center, and drive on the Byrd highway across the Byrd bridge.
They draw benefits from the Byrd disability industry.
The rest of the state is registered heavily democrat as well.
All they need is a snake oil shyster like Manchin who claims to be a different democrat and he'll still win a landslide.
As a senator, he's now campaigning for governor, and will come home to run as a democrat in 2018, when he'll probably carry 70% of the vote.
If democrats ever stop shooting themselves in the foot with coal and gun control, WV will be back in the blue column.
Luckily that's very unlikely to happen.
