Manchin, Tomblin, Rahall to skip DNC

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3. They need to distance themselves from Obama to win the election.

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And their only prospective replacements are not true and progressive Democrats. They are three Republican opponents who would make GWB look like FDR.

You need to understand more about demographics. Fact is that West Virginia is an overwhelmingly white state, so those votes cannot be offset by black and Hispanic votes like in other southern and border states. Obama got 41% of the West Virginia white vote in 2008 (only 2% lower than his national average with white voters), but there is little else to offset that there.

Now look at North Carolina, which Obama won. He got 35% of the white vote, but there were enough blacks and Hispanics to offset that.

In Virginia, also a blue state, Obama won 39% of the white vote. Same phenomenon at work here.

West Virginia

North Carolina

Virginia

Thanks and a hat tip to bluestateguy for having conducted this demographics research