The day West Virginia rejected Barack Obama | West Virginia Record

​Sen. Joe Manchin will be the only Democrat from West Virginia in the Congress in January — and he’s reportedly not so sure about that. (That is, he might turn Republican.)

It will be the first time in 83 years “that Republicans have captured either body.”

“Talk about a red state!” says the West Virginia Record, West Virginia’s Legal Journal. “West Virginia is incarnadine, red as a rare T-bone. Our Statehouse is now 64-36 Republican, our State Senate 18-16 Republican (including the post-election conversion of one dazed Democrat).”

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