• aidan@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    He’s just about the only “Democrat” who could be elected in a blood red coal mining state.

    Plenty of Democrats get elected in majority red states- like Andy Beshear

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      I live in WV.

      We ain’t electing a D. Manchin was as good as it’s gonna get here, and by all accounts he’s pretty shit. It’s a running joke that people call him Maserati Manchin cause he’s only ever here in his Maserati, electing to live in DC on his houseboat.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah Beshear won with a 0.4% margin in an R+16 state over a catastrophically unpopular governor who drove his own reputation into the dirt by taking braindead position after braindead position on things like abortion, school funding, and cockfighting. WV has another SIX percentage points of partisan lean toward Republicans. My assertion stands.