Why did Democrat-dominated West Virginia remain a Republican "red state" for the third straight presidential election? Marshall University professor Marybeth Beller told West Virginia Public Radio it might be because less-educated, white, blue-collar families in southern coal counties were leery of the unfamiliar "otherness" of Barack Obama, a mixed-race intellectual raised unusually in Hawaii, Indonesia and elsewhere. She noted that better-educated, more cosmopolitan voters in Morgantown and the Eastern Panhandle gave higher support to Obama.So why did every Democrat in West Virginia who was running for statewide and congressional office win last Tuesday?
It must be because
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Have you ever noticed that Democrat candidates are always "really smart", frequently too brilliant for words like Slick Willie, who went to Yale, etc.? While Republicans are always too stupid to walk upright even if they have degrees from Havahd, Princeton, Yale or one of the other "bettah" indoctrination centers? Many, but not all obviously, of the very well educated folks I've known may be truly brilliant in their field(s) but inevitably lack something the "blue collar" peasants have--walking around sense AKA common sense. Yet, we continue to elect these geniuses who proceed to prove that a higher education is often worthless in the real world outside Washington, Dizzy. (unless one is a Democrat)
Stupid hillbilllies did not vote for Obama while the educated city folk welcomed him with open arms...WTF!
Marybeth insults me (a Wyoming county boy) with these notions.
Maybe the old farmers and coal miners with lots of commons sense know better.
...Al...
I copied your post on my own blog today. Hope you don't mind. I put a link back.
Hi, Kelly. Long time, no see, er ... read.
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