cain vs. obama: who wins west va?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Much of my family is from West Virginia, and the way this thread has started offends me. Of course Cain will win. Obama has given WV the finger when it comes to Coal, and the people of WV (many came around to him after the mining disaster), are quickly turning against him. Of course, Joe Manchins future hinges on this-does he stick with Obama, or go Liberman/Snowe and keep himself viable for his not so secret 2016 presidential campaign. West Virginia is a state best left alone by Dems-they have much to gain on the local level there (sic, Robert Byrd, Joe Manchin, Nick Rahall), but cant win its small EV number.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

JCL is right. West Virginia may be Democratic on the state level, but when it comes to Presidential elections, they elect Republicans. West Virginia will be one of the last states to vote for Obama regardless of who the GOP nominee is.

Another thing is that Obama is precisely the wrong type of Democrat to win West Virginia; a northern, intellectual Harvard graduate with a foreign-sounding name. Hillary would have won WV easily, as would any Democrat with appeal among white blue-collar voters.

If a Democrat is going to win WV, its gonna be a Clinton-Manchin-Bayh type. People like John Kerry, Howard Dean, and Bill Richardson would never win.