Opinion by Karen Tumulty: Suggestions that Manchin is misreading the politics of his state are simply wrong.
While West Virginians picture themselves as flinty and self-reliant , they are by at least one significant measure more dependent on government than any other state.
Karen Tumulty: Manchin warns that Biden's agenda would create an 'entitlement society.' But his state leads the way.West Virginia was until relatively recently among the most reliably blue states in the country — one of only a handful that Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis managed to carry in 1988, when he was defeated in an electoral college landslide. As late as the 1990s, West Virginia’s congressional delegation was entirely Democratic.
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