Sensing vulnerability in Gov. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) latest poll numbers, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is launching over a million dollars worth of ads in the West Virginia Senate race today. ”Big spending, more government and less freedom…we don’t want a rubber stamp for Obama,” the ad’s narrator intones. “We can’t More…
Bad polling news for a number of Democratic Senate hopefuls is coming out all at once.
The first — and most surprising — item concerns Gov. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who a new Public Policy Polling survey shows trailing his GOP opponent John Raese 46 percent to 43 percent in More…
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito’s (R) announcement Wednesday that she would not run in West Virginia’s special election to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D) left her party without its best chance at a competitive race against the likely Democratic nominee, Gov. Joe Manchin. Still, her exit from More…
Coming on the heels of this morning’s news that Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) will not be a candidate in the special election for the late Robert Byrd’s (D) Senate seat, it appears Gov. Joe Manchin (D), who announced yesterday that he will run for the seat, may More…
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said on a state politics radio show this morning that she will not be a candidate in a special Senate election for the seat previously occupied by the late Robert Byrd (D).
Capito told Hoppy Kercheval, host of “Metronews Talkline,” that she would More…
All of the West Virginia Republican lawmakers’ brouhaha over including the so-called “Capito Amendment” in the state legislature’s compromise bill authorizing a special 2010 Senate election may have been for naught. The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake reported late last night that three sources have told him Rep. Shelley More…
We all knew it was coming, but now it’s official — West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is running in his state’s special Senate election.
He announced his campaign run this morning, a little more than 13 hours after signing the bill that actually declared the election. His run was More…
West Virginia legislators have reached an 11th-hour compromise to allow a special Senate election Nov. 2 to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D).
Gov. Joe Manchin (D) signed a conference version of the bill that the state House of Delegates and state Senate passed this evening. The compromise bill More…
When West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) said Friday that he was “passing the torch” to Carte Goodwin, his former general counsel and appointee to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D), he likely thought Goodwin would end up handing it back to him in just a few months. But More…
Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) hasn’t even been sworn in as a U.S. senator, but he’s already making waves. First, his colleague-to-be announced that he’d be voting for the long-delayed unemployment benefits extension. And now Goodwin has come out against the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, saying the House bill and the Senate More…
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