ManchOUT for WV GOV

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https://twitter.com/HoppyKercheval/status/1168886741689913351

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Manchin is such an attention whore.

Possible Democrat nominees

• Ojeda
• Tennant
• Tomblin
• Gainer
• Goodwin (either)
• Kessler
• Perdue
• Any number of other former statewide electeds
• Any number of current or former state legislators

Any one of these people would comfortably win a primary against Blankenship without lifting a finger

Some random pension collecting former union member coal miner in Logan County would beat Blankenship.

From what I've heard from the folks up there, Blakenship is a lot more complicated than I think any of us understand. The man is personally loathed, but the movement he's vocalizing is stronger in WV than perhaps any other state.

Yes he's such a titan with such a powerful movement backing him he got a whole whopping ~20% in a GOP primary.

WV is weird in that the types of voters you need to win the state are all stuck in the Dem primary, even as they vote GOP in the general. The GOP primary is way out of step with the WWC base, the panhandle is still overrepresented in the voteshare. Justice's path is arguably the one that has the best chance of success for state govt contests if you are a populist Republican, like Blakenship.

Justice's "path" was being the richest guy in the state and flooding the primary with his money.

Now as for your first sentence: Why is a guy who is responsible for the deaths of 29 coal miners going to win over conservative Democrats disproportionately located in coal mining communities in the Democratic primary?

Emotions are weird. We all know on this site that people on all sides of the spectrum will vote  against their interests because of emotions or short term fluctuations. Blakenship oozes that emotional appeal, for some fing reason.

Yes the guy just screams unstoppable charismatic appeal.

Don Blankenship is the pinnacle of charisma. His sex appeal is off the charts.