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Post by peteetongman on Jul 14, 2014 18:15:03 GMT -5
History will be made in West Virginia this year when Mountain State voters elect their first female U.S. senator. They will choose between Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito and Secretary of State Natalie Tennant for the seat being vacated by Democratic incumbent Sen. Jay Rockefeller. The GOP has targeted West Virginia as one of six Senate seats it needs to win to gain control of the Senate. The others include: Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina and South Carolina. In this increasingly Red State, Tennant brought out a firebrand liberal, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Capito shot back with 2012 vice presidential nominee Sen. Paul Ryan, who came out swinging against his fellow surrogate. “Elizabeth Warren is to the left of the left of the Democratic party,” Ryan said. “Elizabeth Warren is part of the war on coal.” Across the nation, Republicans are accusing Democrats and the Obama administration of waging a “war on coal” with overly burdensome regulations and restrictions critics say undercut the energy industry, which is a crucial mainstay of West Virginia’s economy and culture. www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/14/women-stand-to-make-history-in-west-virginia-senate-race/
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Post by peteetongman on Jul 14, 2014 18:16:49 GMT -5
Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito leads Democratic candidate Natalie Tennant by 11 percentage points in their battle over an open Senate seat out of West Virginia, according to a new poll. The nonpartisan West Virginia Poll found that 49 percent of state voters support Ms. Capito while 38 percent prefer Ms. Tennant, who is the state’s secretary of state, the Charleston Daily Mail reports. Read more: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/27/republican-shelley-moore-capito-enjoys-lead-w-va-s/#ixzz37UIlad2SFollow us: @washtimes on Twitter
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