West Virginia

[DanimalBr]

I am really surprised that nobody else has talked about this.  But I think one of the bigger surprises on election night was not that Bush won West Virginia, but that he virtually destroyed Kerry in West Virginia.  I live just across the West VA/Virginia border.  West VA was listed on every site as a swing state throughout the election.  It's a state that has about 40 percent more registered Dems than Republicans.  It's a state that easily went to Clinton twice and was the surprise of 2000 as most predicted it would go to Gore.  Everyone had it in the list of swing states this time around but it wasn't even close.  Infact, Virginia (a traditional GOP stonghold) was way closer than West Virginia.  On election night, one of my very first clues that the exit polling was wrong was that West Virginia was called for Bush so quickly.  Bush wound up winning West Virginia by 13 points, he won by 4 in 2000.  That's a major turn around.  Has West Virginia turned into a solid red state?