When you are living in a Red state like I am you wish our President would just try running one ad. There is so much sh-- going on in WV. People are so afraid of loosing their coal mining jobs. Mike Caputo made a statement that he lived by a coal plant, close enough to throw a rock at. I grew up in the same town of Rivesville. I have Cancer. My father died with Cancer. My young daughter developed asthma as soon as we moved back into the town after living in the mountains. My oldest daughter developed Cancer. We lived much closer to the plant then Mike did. The smoke was always in the air along with the noise. My whole house shook from noise. He made the statement that no one he knew suffered from coal related problems. He is younger then me but, he knows my family. The thing is we can't pin the disease on the plant. They closed the plant last year. The town has gone down hill. When industry leaves the towns and cities around the industry becomes like ghost towns.
They blame strong environmental legislation on the closing of mines and coal powered plants. No one can see the future here. I guess some things take a while to change. The ads here are awful. The G.O.P. makes fun of Obama and Harry Reid and links Manchin and Gov. Tomblin in with them. These are the ads that go over and over. Manchin puts out his own ads with information telling how he has fought against strong environmental regulations on coal. He is fighting his own battle. The people in the area of the University are Obama followers but, the further out in the sticks you go the more you find the ignorance. People call Obama Muslim. They belive all the religious horror stories put out by the GOP. Propoganda has taken over! How can that happen?