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Obama’s war on coal which is critical to West Virginia’s economy and everyone else’s electric rates may have had something to do with it. – The Hill

David Asman compares the administration’s words with the reality of government actions that are destroying jobs and driving up energy prices which will cripple the economy.

The agency’s action on Thursday preempted a court decision and provoked an immediate outcry from West Virginia politicians, the coal industry and other businesses that have raised objections to what they consider economically damaging regulatory overreach by the E.P.A.

Inhofe is confident the GOP will win: “We’ll take over the following seats where there are Democratic incumbents: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Washington state, Wisconsin, West Virginia — where I’ll be Monday — North Dakota, and I think California.”

Surging GOP Senate candidate John Raese is doubling down on his allegation that West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin lied by saying that he opposed the unpopular Obama healthcare overhaul.

“Over the past year and a half, we have been fighting President Obama’s administration’s attempts to destroy our coal industry and way of life in West Virginia,” Manchin said today.

For the first time Sharron Angle has pulled out 3 points ahead of Harry Reid. In West Virginia Obama’s environmental policies push Republican ahead of popular Democrat governor.

Illinois, Delaware and West Virginia all have special elections that could tip the balance of power in the senate beginning in November.

West Virginia’s top lawyer cleared the way Thursday for Gov. Joe Manchin to put a special election for the late Robert C. Byrd’s Senate seat on the November ballot.

Rick Santorum explains how the finance reform bill could be in trouble if the West Virginia Governor who is a conservative Democrat appoints himself as Byrd’s replacement.