Adenoid_Hynkel
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Wed Nov-08-06 01:42 AM
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Coal baron failed to buy WV legislature for GOP |
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despite nonstop ads, direct mail nad everything else targeting Dem candidates, Don Blankenship-owner of unsafe mines ended up fizzling out
anyone in WV knows that this is a big defeat for King Coal
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Wed Nov-08-06 01:44 AM
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Wed Nov-08-06 01:48 AM
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2. Only 6 of his 38 candidates won. |
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And four of those were incumbents. So he really only got two Republican delegates for his more than $2 million. Spend it all, Don, spend it all!!
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Wed Nov-08-06 01:50 AM
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3. Perhaps more voters remembered how well he took care of |
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mine safety.
If not him directly, then assholes just like him.
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