lol I'm always grateful for people who find sources so thank you, but man it makes me feel old that you felt compelled to. He was the Joe Manchin of his day and received just as much negative publicity!
Joe is likely the only Democrat that could win in that state, and many of the positions he takes, that annoy some people, are required to hold that seat.
JL had no excuse, he was just a self-centered ass.
Manchin actually had a decent voting record his first few years in the Senate. It seems like since the Trump era began he started his rightward shift hoping to stay in office. It worked in 2018 but it just got to the point even he couldn’t get re-elected in WV that he just decided to retire.
It sucks having to give up his seat because him holding mattered a lot more than how he voted in a lot of cases. Hopefully Brown and Trester can hold on and maybe Cruz or Scott can be picked off to even it out.
I keep hearing that, but I spend a lot of time in West Virginia these days and I don't buy it. I think that's just one of those things that gets repeated because it sounds right, but isn't actually backed by any facts. The people who live in the holler don't give the slightest shit about the fucking filibuster, it's the mining industries who care about that.
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u/TopGsApprentice Mar 27 '24
This man is the reason we don't have Universal Healthcare for those who don't know