west va?

[Sam Spade]

West Virginia is perhaps the best state to show the problems of the Democrats in the cultural arena.  I'm sure they got killed there because of it.

It still remains a nominally Democrat state locally, though I will say that if KKK Byrd retires in 2006, Republicans will definitely have a very good shot of winning a Senate seat there.

Nationally, West Virginia will only be up-for-grabs again to a cultural conservative inside the Democrat party.

[Sam Spade]

That reliable source is being hopeful.  I think that after the RNC in September, which was when Kerry pulled his resources, he was probably behind by a solid 5 points.

Then the culture stuff and the NRA came to the forefront and he got killed afterwards.  The party bosses could have also helped with this defeat too.