What's the matter with Jim Justice?

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What's right with Jim Justice?

Your party is in denial. While I agree the while "Didn't vote for Obama and Hillary" thing is anathema to the base, but if your party just became pro-coal, it would pick up a lot of votes in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, while losing basically no one.

Actually, the Democratic Party has probably lost those voters forever, and if they were to go pro-coal, could easily lose swaths of people who, you know, actually care about the environment. Maybe, just maybe, we're more concerned with combating climate change.

Anyway, Jim Justice was literally a Republican not that long ago, and probably would be more conservative than the average Republican in plenty of states, so I don't see how this is a question.

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What's right with Jim Justice?

Your party is in denial. While I agree the while "Didn't vote for Obama and Hillary" thing is anathema to the base, but if your party just became pro-coal, it would pick up a lot of votes in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, while losing basically no one.

Actually, the Democratic Party has probably lost those voters forever, and if they were to go pro-coal, could easily lose swaths of people who, you know, actually care about the environment. Maybe, just maybe, we're more concerned with combating climate change.

In this case, the Dems and GOP will have the same position on coal. So unless anti-coal folks are going to stay home or vote Green, they'll vote Dem. Ultimately I think the overwhelming, overwhelming majority will still vote dem.

Why would they start to vote Democratic if the Democrats pandered to them on that one issue? It would be an obvious pander, and many of them also find the Democratic Party too socially liberal. Democrats going pro-coal would definitely result in a net loss for them.