Personally, I think there IS a great deal of disenchantment w/ Manchin (and, by extension, w/ Raese).

Hopefully, I'll have an OpEd coming out in the Gazette pointing up that lack of enthusiasm for both candidates, and pointing out the alternative.

Again, personally, I think Manchin is so stuffed-to-popping with his own hubris that it doesn't even dawn on him that he's alienated a significant portion of the Democratic voting base via his sycophantic devotion to Big Poison. I don't think it dawns on Rahall, either, for that matter.

As Hunter Thompson once noted, "Big darkness, soon come." This may be one race where coal can't keep the lights on for either candidate.

Bob

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Harvard Harvard@boone.net wrote:

Regina- I'm surprised to see the 3rd party vote up at 44%. There must be a lot of unhappiness with Manchin and the R. Or we are loading up the voting. Since the question was asked in the hypothetical, I voted. Harvard

At 11:27 AM 10/6/2010, Regina Hendrix wrote:

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West Virginians:

Please go to http://www.wvgazette.com/http://www.wvgazette.com/

On the lefthand side scroll down to the survey question and vote for 3rd party representation in WV. Ken Hechler and Larry Gibson have called this to my attention and we need some votes in favor of 3rd parties.

Regina Hendrix