Best Senators of the Past 50 years: West Virginia

[Mr. Smith]

And here's West Virginia, which was the anti-Kansas until just this last election. I guess DC's Shadow Senators are the closest thing now.

Alabama: Howell Heflin (27.9%)
Alaska: Mike Gravel (44.6%)
Arizona: Barry Goldwater (46.9%)
Arkansas: Dale Bumpers (28.6%)
California: Pete Wilson (28.9%)
Colorado: Mark Udall & Ben Nighthorse Campbell (25.5%)
Connecticut: Chris Murphy (28.9%)
Delaware: Joe Biden (63%)
Florida: Bob Graham (23.8%)
Georgia: Sam Nunn & Max Cleland (32.6%)
Hawaii: Hiram Fong (43.2%)
Idaho: Frank Church (68.6%)
Illinois: Paul M. Simon (26.8%)
Indiana: Richard Lugar (35.4%)
Iowa: Tom Harkin (48.9%)
Kansas: Bob Dole (48.8%)
Kentucky: Rand Paul (39.7%)
Louisiana: Russell Long (39.6%)
Maine: Ed Muskie (41.2%)
Maryland: Barbara Mikulski (52.6%)
Massachusetts: Ted Kennedy (31.8%)
Michigan: Carl Levin (52.2%)
Minnesota: Paul Wellstone (34.6%)
Mississippi: Thad Cochran (51.3%)
Missouri: John Danforth (35.9%)
Montana: Mike Mansfield (55.9%)
Nebraska: Chuck Hagel (43.3%)
Nevada: Harry Reid (50%)
New Hampshire: Jeanne Shaheen (30.2%)
New Jersey: Bill Bradley (36.4%)
New Mexico: Pete Domenici (27.3%)
New York: Robert F. Kennedy (31.3%)
North Carolina: Terry Sanford (43.2%)
North Dakota: Byron Dorgan (34.6%)
Ohio: Sherrod Brown and George Voinovich (21.6%)
Oklahoma: Fred Harris (38.2%)
Oregon: Wayne Morse (32.4%)
Pennsylvania: Arlen Specter (22.2%)
Rhode Island: John Chafee (40%)
South Carolina: Ernest Hollings (50%)
South Dakota: George McGovern (51.5%)
Tennessee: Howard Baker (34.2%)
Texas: Ralph Yarborough (42.2%)
Utah: Frank Moss (51.4%)
Vermont: Bernie Sanders (53.6%)
Virginia: John Warner (33.3%)

[Antonio the Sixth]

Rockefeller.

[Mr. Smith]

Went with Byrd. Tied with Randolph subjectively, so I went the objective.

[Miles]

Byrd.

[SATW]

Shelley Moore-Capito, easily, followed by Joe Manchin in a somewhat distant second.


AL: Denton, R-AL
AK: Sullivan, R-AK
AR: Cotton, R-AR
AZ: Goldwater, R-AZ
CA: Hayakawa, R-CA
CO: Armstrong, R-CO
CT: Lieberman, D-CT/I-CT
DE: Roth, R-DE
FL: Rubio, R-FL
GA: Isakson, R-GA
HI: Fong, R-HI
ID: Symms, R-ID
IN: E. Bayh, D-IN
IL: Dirksen, R-IL
IA: Grassley, R-IA
KS: Roberts, R-KS
KY: McConnell, R-KY
LA: Landrieu, D-LA
ME: M. C. Smith, R-ME
MD: Cardin, D-MD
MA: Tsongas, D-MA
MI: Levin, D-MI
MN: Boschwitz, R-MN
MS: Lott, R-MS
MO: Bond, R-MO
MT: Daines, R-MT
NE: Sasse, R-NE
NV: Hecht, R-NV
NJ: Menendez, D-NJ
NH: Gregg, R-NH
NM: Dominenci, R-NM
NY: Five Way Tie between Moynihan, D'Amato, Buckley, Schumer, and Kennedy, but voted Moynihan in the Poll
NC: Burr, R-NC
ND: Hoeven, R-ND
OH: Portman, R-OH
OK: Coburn, R-OK
PA: Toomey, R-PA
OR: G. Smith, R-OR
RI: Pell, D-RI
SC: Scott, R-SC
SD: Thune, R-SD
TN: Baker, R-TN
TX: Hutchison, R-TX
UT: Hatch, R-UT
VT: Stafford, R-VT
VA: Allen, R-VA
WA: S. Jackson, D-WA
WV:Capito, R-WV

[Phony Moderate]

Objectively speaking, Byrd. Subjectively speaking, Rockefeller. Went with the latter, as I'm in that kind of mood.

[TDAS04]

Rockefeller

[Zioneer]

Rockefeller.

[H. Ross Peron]

Randolph.

[VPH]

Alabama: Howell Heflin
Alaska: Mike Gravel
Arizona: Dennis Deconcini
Arkansas: J William Fulbright  
California: Barbara Boxer
Colorado: Gary Hart
Connecticut: Chris Murphy
Delaware: Joe Biden
Florida: Bob Graham
Georgia: Sam Nunn
Hawaii: Daniel Inouye
Idaho: Frank Church
Illinois: Paul Simon tied with Barack Obama
Indiana: Vance Hartke
Iowa: Tom Harkin
Kansas: Nancy Kassebaum tied with Bob Dole
Kentucky: John Sherman Cooper
Louisiana: Russell Long
Maine: Olympia Snowe
Maryland: Barbara Mikulski
Massachusetts: Ted Kennedy
Michigan: Carl Levin
Minnesota: Paul Wellstone
Mississippi: Thad Cochran
Missouri: Stuart Symington
Montana: Mike Mansfield
Nebraska: Bob Kerrey
Nevada: Harry Reid
New Hampshire: Thomas J. McIntyre
New Jersey: Clifford Case
New Mexico: Tom Udall
New York: Robert Kennedy but Jacob Javits is great too
North Carolina: John Edwards (Not as a person though)
North Dakota: Bryon Dorgan
Ohio: Sherrod Brown
Oklahoma: Fred Harris
Oregon: Wayne Morse
Pennsylvania: Arlen Specter but Bob Casey is just barely behind him
Rhode Island: Lincoln Chafee
South Carolina: Fritz Hollings
South Dakota: George McGovern
Tennessee: Al Gore
Texas: Lloyd Bentsen
Utah: Frank Moss
Vermont: Bernie Sanders
Virginia: Jim Webb
Washington: Patty Murray
West Virginia: Jay Rockefeller

[Rockefeller GOP]

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BouPR8ZczI

[Mr. Smith]

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

Now that's just being disingenuous and you know it.  You're better than this.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Randolph, then Capito.

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

This.

[Njall]

Rockefeller

[SATW]

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

Now that's just being disingenuous and you know it.  You're better than this.

No, it's not. Byrd was a horrible human being.

[H. Ross Peron]

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

Now that's just being disingenuous and you know it.  You're better than this.

No, it's not. Byrd was a horrible human being.

Says the guy who thinks Helms was a pretty good Senator.

[Mr. Smith]

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

Now that's just being disingenuous and you know it.  You're better than this.

No, it's not. Byrd was a horrible human being.

And you're being hypocritical, considering the whole Helms and Thurmond and Allen thing you've got there.

And unlike Thurmond or Helms, Byrd unambiguously and explicitly recanted everything he ever did, and even eventually became an ally to the NAACP.

So yeah, think what you will...but the Klansman angle is not a good one to go on.

[Türkisblau]

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

Now that's just being disingenuous and you know it.  You're better than this.

No, it's not. Byrd was a horrible human being.

lol, compared to the genocidal maniacs you idealize, Byrd was an absolute saint

[SATW]

I have NEVER supported Strom Thurmond. EVER. He was trash, like Byrd, imo.

I have also never said that liberals and progressives don't have a right to like Byrd. But, the moral outrage has often been on Helms while white-washing Byrd.

I will apologize for my posts praising Helms. His stance on AIDs and LGBT rights was horrible, as I have alluded to in past posts. I will admit that it is extremely selfish, and hypocritical, for me to point out positions that Helms held that I consider to be positive (support for Reagan, opposition to abortion and switch from Anti-Israel to Pro-Israel).

Helms, like Byrd, Thurmond, and others were not good people.

[SATW]

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

Now that's just being disingenuous and you know it.  You're better than this.

No, it's not. Byrd was a horrible human being.

lol, compared to the genocidal maniacs you idealize, Byrd was an absolute saint

I really have the feeling that you don't know what genocide actually means.

[Türkisblau]

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

Now that's just being disingenuous and you know it.  You're better than this.

No, it's not. Byrd was a horrible human being.

lol, compared to the genocidal maniacs you idealize, Byrd was an absolute saint

I really have the feeling that you don't know what genocide actually means.

fite me irl

[SATW]

The pro-choice Republican > the Klansman.

Now that's just being disingenuous and you know it.  You're better than this.

No, it's not. Byrd was a horrible human being.

lol, compared to the genocidal maniacs you idealize, Byrd was an absolute saint

I really have the feeling that you don't know what genocide actually means.

fite me irl

[Maxwell]

Capito, by default of not being a "populist" Democrat.

[RINO Tom]

Just ... SUCH an easy SMC vote!