Democrat wins West Virginia governor’s race

[Coach Hank Crisp]

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin overcame weeks of Republican attack ads to win the West Virginia governor’s race Tuesday, successfully distancing himself from the Obama administration and the president’s health care plan.

Tomblin, who has been acting governor for the past year, will finish the final year of a term left vacant by Joe Manchin, a well-liked governor who stepped down after he won a U.S. Senate seat.

The race was fraught with negative ads from both sides and narrowed in the final weeks. The national parties spent millions of dollars on each campaign.

With 65 percent of precincts reporting, Tomblin had 50 percent of the vote compared with Maloney’s 46 percent, according to unofficial results.

Tomblin, a veteran state lawmaker, fended off questions about his mother’s greyhound breeding business and efforts to tie him to Obama. Republicans were upset Tomblin didn’t join a majority of other states who sued the administration over the health care plan.

Obama lost West Virginia in 2008 and remains wildly unpopular here, but Tomblin got a replay of last year’s U.S. Senate special election, when Manchin beat back efforts to tie him to Obama.

[BAMAWV]

Just a guess but Dems outnumber GOP voters 4-1 in WV. Biggest voting blocks are the teachers union followed by United Mine Workers. But we are making great strides. The state voted Bush in 2000 and 2004, and McCain in 2008.

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Now we will have to listen to all the drive by media say that this is a sign that the country will re-elect Obama for all the hope and change we didn't get in the past 2 1/2 years.

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