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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Manchin cannot possibly do anything else.  He represents WV.  It would be unethical, really, to support DC statehood.[/quote]

Unethical is not the right word, but it's true that it's not what his constituents want.

A more Democratic Senate would probably help states like WV a lot but who cares about that. It's all about culture wars. [/quote]

I am from WV.  We absolutely do not “benefit” from a Democratic Senate.  Only the urban poor do.  Obama made that VERY clear.[/quote]

Really? Byrd, a democratic senator from WV, funneled obscene amounts of money to your state. You have a Coast Guard office! That makes no sense!! If you’re so unhappy with all the benefits democrats have given WV, can we get some of those funds back? Also, I’m sure another state would love to have those federal offices. [/quote]

Love how these posts always go.  What you, and my other critics here, don’t understand is that not everything is about money.   The cultural differences are much more important.  That is why you keep thinking you have elections in the bag that you then either lose or narrowly win.  You don’t want to hear it, but that’s reality.[/quote]

So what is the benefit to WV of a Republican senate? And I mean for the regular people of WV,  not coal mining companies. [/quote]

They feel most strongly about guns, religion and pro-life.  You may disagree, but that’s the benefit.  You Dems are the enemy, and it shocks me you don’t appear to know that.

And that is how Byrd, Manchin, etc get such great pork for the state....they give on a few things and get paid well in return for those party-line votes.  We aren’t stupid, that is how the game is played.

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No, Im asking what the actual benefit it. Just good feelings when a woman can’t get an abortion? Guns are not going to be taken away or freedom of religion. They’re both in the constitution. The GOP uses those issues to scare voters and drive up support. But what is the actual, tangible benefit to WV?[/quote]

You see calls for limits on guns every day on DCUM.  EVERY day.  Religious rights continue to be eroded away gradually -- look at the COVID threads saying a religious exemption isn't a valid reason to excuse a vaccine.  Look at the war on charter schools.  These things are happening and are supported by the party.

As for actual benefits, that's easy but you won't like that either.  Under Obama, the mines closed.  Trump opened them back up.  Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline as basically his first major move.  You can send me all the articles you want about how it was going to happen anyway, and you might even be right -- but my FB feed is filled with people who lost jobs, got jobs back, are losing them again.  When that's your family, care a lot more than when it's a random report in the WaPo.

The $15 minimum wage is a core issue too.  People are struggling enough to find work, and they know that there will be fewer jobs.  I know that didn't happen in Seattle, but rural WV isn't Seattle.  Plenty of people have been working for decades and don't make $15 an hour there.  They don't want to lose those jobs either, and they know they might well with a $15/hour minimum wage, because the business owners aren't any too wealthy either and there's no more fat to trim.

A local high school basketball player was shot and killed over the weekend.  He's black.  the white community is in an uproar about it.  That could have been their kid.  It is NOT all about race in WV.  The mines desegregated LONG before your northern factory cities did.[/quote]

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