West Virginia Megathread

[KCDem]

Just saw a couple of interviews with Nathalie Tennant and I'm starting to really like her. She seems very smart and well-spoken.
I think she can actually poll this off, even if most polls have her down by about ten points.

She's the second coming of Parker Griffith.

Why would you say that? She being pro coal is a pretty uncontroversial stance in West Virginia. There are probably no politician more pro coal in the entire United States than the guy she wants to replace, Joe Manchin. On other issues she seems to be a pretty prototypical Democrat. She's attacking Moore Capito for being the only West Virginian in Congress to vote against a health and security protection act and her whole coal supporting thingy basically comes down to the desire to keep jobs in her home state. She wouldn't have had such a big issue with the Obama administration's anti coal regulations if only they would replace them with new jobs in renewable energy sectors, as she said in one interview. So it's more that she's a pro jobs than a pro coal politician really. I'm pretty sure that she's more liberal than Joe Manchin. Even Shelley Moore Capito sounds like a Democrat sometimes. Capito's own role model in the Senate is Lisa Murkowski, together with Susan Collins the most moderate Senate Republican there is.

So not moderate at all, got it.

[International Brotherhood of Bernard]

Just saw a couple of interviews with Nathalie Tennant and I'm starting to really like her. She seems very smart and well-spoken.
I think she can actually poll this off, even if most polls have her down by about ten points.

She's the second coming of Parker Griffith.

Why would you say that? She being pro coal is a pretty uncontroversial stance in West Virginia. There are probably no politician more pro coal in the entire United States than the guy she wants to replace, Joe Manchin. On other issues she seems to be a pretty prototypical Democrat. She's attacking Moore Capito for being the only West Virginian in Congress to vote against a health and security protection act and her whole coal supporting thingy basically comes down to the desire to keep jobs in her home state. She wouldn't have had such a big issue with the Obama administration's anti coal regulations if only they would replace them with new jobs in renewable energy sectors, as she said in one interview. So it's more that she's a pro jobs than a pro coal politician really. I'm pretty sure that she's more liberal than Joe Manchin. Even Shelley Moore Capito sounds like a Democrat sometimes. Capito's own role model in the Senate is Lisa Murkowski, together with Susan Collins the most moderate Senate Republican there is.

So not moderate at all, got it.

Well, "moderate", at least compared to the other Republicans in the Senate.

[KCDem]

Just saw a couple of interviews with Nathalie Tennant and I'm starting to really like her. She seems very smart and well-spoken.
I think she can actually poll this off, even if most polls have her down by about ten points.

She's the second coming of Parker Griffith.

Why would you say that? She being pro coal is a pretty uncontroversial stance in West Virginia. There are probably no politician more pro coal in the entire United States than the guy she wants to replace, Joe Manchin. On other issues she seems to be a pretty prototypical Democrat. She's attacking Moore Capito for being the only West Virginian in Congress to vote against a health and security protection act and her whole coal supporting thingy basically comes down to the desire to keep jobs in her home state. She wouldn't have had such a big issue with the Obama administration's anti coal regulations if only they would replace them with new jobs in renewable energy sectors, as she said in one interview. So it's more that she's a pro jobs than a pro coal politician really. I'm pretty sure that she's more liberal than Joe Manchin. Even Shelley Moore Capito sounds like a Democrat sometimes. Capito's own role model in the Senate is Lisa Murkowski, together with Susan Collins the most moderate Senate Republican there is.

So not moderate at all, got it.

Well, "moderate", at least compared to the other Republicans in the Senate.

So in the same way that Charles Albright was a "moderate" serial killer compared with Ted Bundy. Ok, thanks for clarifying.

[Potus]

Bumping this.

Capito-Tennant debate scheduled for Oct. 7th.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

Just saw a couple of interviews with Nathalie Tennant and I'm starting to really like her. She seems very smart and well-spoken.
I think she can actually poll this off, even if most polls have her down by about ten points.

She's the second coming of Parker Griffith.

Why would you say that? She being pro coal is a pretty uncontroversial stance in West Virginia. There are probably no politician more pro coal in the entire United States than the guy she wants to replace, Joe Manchin. On other issues she seems to be a pretty prototypical Democrat. She's attacking Moore Capito for being the only West Virginian in Congress to vote against a health and security protection act and her whole coal supporting thingy basically comes down to the desire to keep jobs in her home state. She wouldn't have had such a big issue with the Obama administration's anti coal regulations if only they would replace them with new jobs in renewable energy sectors, as she said in one interview. So it's more that she's a pro jobs than a pro coal politician really. I'm pretty sure that she's more liberal than Joe Manchin. Even Shelley Moore Capito sounds like a Democrat sometimes. Capito's own role model in the Senate is Lisa Murkowski, together with Susan Collins the most moderate Senate Republican there is.

So not moderate at all, got it.

Well, "moderate", at least compared to the other Republicans in the Senate.

So in the same way that Charles Albright was a "moderate" serial killer compared with Ted Bundy. Ok, thanks for clarifying.

Or like how Mussolini was a moderate compared to Adolf Hitler.

[Miles]

Manchin ad for Rahall.

[Frodo]

So Senator Joe Manchin was offered the chance to join the Republican Party after filling in the remaining years of the late Senator Robert Byrd's term and then being elected to the US Senate in 2012 in his own right as a moderate-to-conservative Democrat.  As we all know, he declined their offer then.  Looking back over the past fourteen years, what would the political ramifications have been if he had become a Republican, especially ahead of the 2018 midterm election, bearing in mind the increasingly Republican tilt of his state over the years since he first became a Senator?  He was barely re-elected that year as I recall -would he have had an easier time of it as a newly minted Republican?