• HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    He’s been declining in electability over time. He had a high chance of losing the next election to a generic red team candidate, and then the red team candidate turned out to be someone with a lot of name recognition and electability. He was quite unlikely to continue in the WV senator role no matter what, and I don’t think the Dems vilifying him is the cause. If anything, it helped him in WV, just not enough.

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      8 months ago

      Probably true I suppose. But he had SOME chance of being elected. I’m not sure that’s true of anyone else. I guess we’ll see and like I said, I hope I’m wrong.