05-08-2018, 07:12 PM
rjmacs wrote:
[quote=pdq]
I don’t have one of those, but the general feeling is that after savaging his primary opponents in the GOP, if Blankenship wins, Manchin is a shoo-in.
Of course, we thought that about another race in 2016.
He's done a little more than "savaging his primary opponents."
He called Elaine Chao and her relatives Mitch McConnell's "China family," amongst other claims.
This guy is a convicted killer (convicted of avoiding/subverting safety regulations that led, among other things, to the deaths of 93% of the miners at Upper Big Branch, where 29 workers died in an underground explosion in 2010).
Yeah, I know. That's why he's unlikely to win the general, even in West Virginia.