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oberliner

(58,724 posts) Mon May 7, 2018, 07:45 AM May 2018

Blankenship surging on eve of West Virginia Senate primary

There is growing concern among Republicans that Don Blankenship, a bombastic coal baron who has spent time in prison, is surging ahead of Tuesday’s West Virginia Senate primary — and a last-minute campaign is underway to stop him.

As the tight contest hurtles to a close, four Republicans said they’d reviewed polling conducted in recent days showing Blankenship, who spent a year in jail following the 2010 explosion at his Upper Big Branch Mine that killed 29 workers, moving narrowly ahead of his more mainstream GOP rivals, Rep. Evan Jenkins and state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

The Republicans cautioned that the surveys, designed to offer a snapshot of the race, were conducted over a brief period of time and may be overstating Blankenship’s support.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/05/blankenship-polls-west-virginia-senate-primary-570752

Trump urges West Virginia voters to reject GOP Senate candidate Don Blankenship

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/donald-trump-west-virginia-don-blankenship/index.html

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Blankenship surging on eve of West Virginia Senate primary (Original Post) oberliner May 2018 OP

GOP dogwhistled at racists for 40 years sharedvalues May 2018 #1

The GOP snowybirdie May 2018 #2

earlier this year they supported a pedophile Victor_c3 May 2018 #3

GOP priorities Cartoonist May 2018 #4

Not surprising get the red out May 2018 #5

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)

1. GOP dogwhistled at racists for 40 years

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Mon May 7, 2018, 07:49 AM

May 2018

And now the best strategy for GOP candidates is to be explicitly racist. Who would ever have predicted that the base the GOP taught to hate minorities and love racists would love racists?