Oh, sigh. We cats were so hoping that murderer Don Blankenship was going to kill the GOP's chances to defeat Senator Joe Manchin this November just as effectively as he snuffed out the lives of 29 miners at Upper Big Branch back in 2010. His campaign ads were so hilarious! (Unintentionally, of course.)
Results in the Republican Senate primary so far, with half the vote in: Blankenship's a distant third, at 20 percent. The Ted Cruz-endorsed candidate Patrick Morrisey and Congressman Evan Jenkins are duking it out for first place, 35 to 29. (Probably a reflection of Donald Drumpf tweeting that — um — Republicans should split their vote between Jenkins and Morrisey. We're still trying to figure that one out.)
So, while we realize we must let go of our Blankenship dream, there still might be fun in store.
Will the Mountain State's Republican party unite? Will the Blankenship voters stay home? As for fun we've already had, Mitch McConnell was forced to throw more than a million bucks into what should have been an easy primary race, and the divisions between the far right and the whackjob right in West Virginia just became a chasm. We cats PURR.
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