Senator Jay Rockefeller, from the conservative state of West Virginia, is up for reelection in 2014. The Senator has decided to sidestep the gun control issue after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut by attacking Hollywood, video games, and the Internet.
Senator Joe Manchin (D – WV) appears to have changed his tune on the second amendment. The Democratic Senator who received an “A” rating from the NRA appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday to discuss the school shooting in
The networks are calling the West Virginia gubernatorial race for incumbent Senator Joe Manchin. He was widely expected to hold his seat. But Republican hopes for a takeover in the Senate are in serious trouble.
Yesterday, four top West Virginia Democrats ripped the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency for taking action that will result in 150 lost mining jobs in the coal industry. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, Sen. Joe Manchin, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, and Rep.
Yesterday, prominent Democrats in West Virginia — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, Sen. Joe Manchin and Rep. Nick Rahall — announced they would not be attending the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina. And a spokesman for another Democrat, Rep. Mark
On Friday, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin (D) announced he wasn’t sure whom he would vote for in the November presidential election. Today, Obama top campaign advisor David Axelrod stated on CNN that he understood how Manchin would be wary
Over the weekend I had a post on Big Government that looked at the trouble Democrats are making for themselves by trying to depict “stand your ground” laws as bad laws, and further, trying then to hang them as albatrosses around the
Freshman Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin accused President Obama of sitting on the sidelines Tuesday while Congress debates “wildly different” budget bills that are expected to fail. “Our president has failed to lead this debate or offer a serious proposal for
UPDATE: Larry Weitzner of Jamestown Associates, the media consulting firm that initially denied having described West Virginians as “hicky,” admitted on Thursday to having used that characterization in the firm’s casting call request. He has since been fired by the
When President Obama was inaugurated in 2009, lefty hearts were a-flutter over thoughts of a permanent progressive majority. A Great New Deal Society was dawning and the Republican party would be relegated to an inconsequential minority status forever. My, what
The CATO Institute has released its 2010 Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors, offering praise for some and criticism for many. At the front of the pack are three Republicans and one Democrat: Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), Gov. Bobby
The death of Senator Robert Byrd on Monday has upended the administration’s cap and trade offensive, as observers of West Virginia politics suspect his yet-to-be-named interim successor will defer to the state’s pro-coal politics on pending climate legislation. Byrd, whose