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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (131737)

5/4/2012 12:32:18 AM

From: MJ

5 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

05/03/2012

Hoppy's Commentary for Thursday
Talkline Host Hoppy Kercheval

The fact that West Virginia is a conservative state, leaves Obama trailing badly. any Democrats running statewide this year are trying to perfect their tightrope walking skills, thanks to one of the least popular presidents in West Virginia’s history.

First it was Senator Joe Manchin, who equivocated when I asked him on Metronews Talkline whether he would vote for Barack Obama. Later, Manchin told a Washington reporter, “I am just waiting for it to play out. I am not jumping in one way or another.”

Not exactly a ringing endorsement of his party’s nominee.

"Now it’s Governor Earl Ray Tomblin. He issued a statement Wednesday putting him squarely, uh, nowhere in the presidential race.

“I do not believe either candidate has a real understanding of what is important to West Virginia,” Tomblin said. “Neither President Obama nor Governor Romney has earned my vote at this point.”

That’s about the best a West Virginia Democrat can manage in this environment; it appears to place Tomblin in the position of an undecided voter.

Obama is wildly unpopular in West Virginia. Perhaps only former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship and former WVU football coach Rich Rodriguez have lower approval ratings.

But Obama will still be at the top of the Democratic ticket when voters go to the polls in this year’s Primary and General Elections. Manchin and Tomblin, along with Democratic 3rd district Congressman Nick Rahall, and every other Democrat in a competitive race, are worried that Obama will drag them down.

And Obama is down there pretty far in the Mountain State. A poll by R.L. Repass & Partners done for the Charleston Daily Mail has Romney ahead of Obama 54-37 in West Virginia; a remarkable advantage given the state has almost twice as many Democrats as Republicans.

And Obama’s numbers are not going to improve here. "-----------continued

COMMENTS ABOVE ARE FROM THE METRO NEWS IN WEST VIRGINIA IN CHARLESTON W.VA.
ROMNEY 54% AND OBAMA 37%-------mj

To: lorne who wrote (131737)	5/4/2012 1:41:19 AM
From: MJ	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224755

I just posted the poll for West Virginia------see previous message I believe those figures are an indication , 57% for Romney and 37% for Obama, of a similar pattern along the Western border of Virginia . Virginia will fall right into line with that percentage. This week, Obama has already stood with Tim Kaine, his former DNC Chairman, in Virginia and announced that he opposes Virginia's Right To Work Law----tthat puts Kaine in an ominous spot in running as a Democrat. Virginia has been increasing jobs and industry in Virginia, since Governor Mc Donnell was elected in 2010 along with the Right To Work members of Virginia Legislature. (This is in contrast to Kaine who was the former Governor.) Virginia is on the right track and Obama is on the wrong track-------I see the Democrats in Virginia running away from Obama just as the West Virginia Democrat Candidates are doing. Obama believes he can carry Northern Virginia----------very doubtful----the votes that went for Obama in 2008 are coming home to the Republican party mj