CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A few voters from different counties continue to experience problems with electronic machines during early voting. Eleven early v...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
The Barrackville, WV voters were great examples of what we found everywhere -- growing support for Obama as people figure out how to make ends meet.
Steven Denlinger | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
In the old days of the West, when someone did irreparable harm to a community, the Sheriff took the culprit to the edge of town. He told that person ...
Politico | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
West Virginia's Democratic leaders on Saturday embarked on a winding, eight-county bus tour through the south of the state, and in one small mining to...
Andy Rosenberg | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
In a year full of surprises to the conventional political wisdom, Obama's campaign is rocketing to competitiveness in the nearly all-white state of West Virginia.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
All told, 20 states are currently at high risk of loss by the Republican party in either the presidential election, the Senate race, or both. How is that for expanding the playing field?
Kevin Grandia | Posted 10.11.2008 | Green
As renewable energy technology becomes cheaper and more efficient, coal companies are finding it a lot more difficult to justify such crude and environmentally disastrous techniques for powering America.
David Roberts | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
grist.orgI've written before about the economic and environmental nightmare that is liquid coal. If I were a governor and an energy company proposed o...
Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
Considering that McCain continues to trail significantly, it's hard to see his path to victory when he's so out-gunned on the ground and running such a nonsensical strategy of which states to target or defend.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
***UPDATE*** Akers reports that Cheney has now apologized for his West Virginia incest joke: Vice President Dick Cheney has apologized through his sp...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
John McCain "can't win" if he's seen as "the Bush third term" -- this, from a Republican?
Daniel Nichanian | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home
At Nevada's state convention Hillary lost a delegate, so she's now down by three in a state she won. Jack Evans, manager of her campaign in DC switched to Obama as well, citing momentum.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.22.2008 | Home
Clinton doesn't help Obama with his electoral map in November. He needs someone who has both pull in the states he wants to win and who can help repair rifts with rural white voters. Two names immediately come to mind.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.21.2008 | Home
Problem Reverend issues rippled across political contests last night. West Virginia voters held Rev Wright against Obama, and Mississippi voters held Rev Hagee against the Republican party.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 05.21.2008 | Home
In Roy Romer's endorsement of Obama, it came down to the map and the math. "It is different kind of winning possibility that Senator Obama was presenting to the party.... This nation is evolving."
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
Good Morning America, on the scene in West Virginia, introduced their viewers to Janis. She's not a particularly enthusiastic Hillary Clinton support...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics
With Clinton holding a huge lead in the latest West Virginia polls, her win there is all but assumed. One energetic Hillary supporter even suggested ...
Linda Hansen | Posted 05.18.2008 | Home
Bubba's not just in Ohio and Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. He's not just Southern white trash. He's in every socio-economic class. Scratch his politically correct veneer and have a look-see.
Los Angeles Times | Stephen Braun | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
In Hardy County, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 2 to 1. But there is little enthusiasm for Barack Obama in this mountainside enclave, a por...
The Charleston Gazette | Paul J. Nyden | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics