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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
I've said this 50 times in this thread so what's one more.
There is no other democrat in the world who can win a seat in West Virginia. Yes - Manchin leans more to the right than others, but your options are:
1) Have Manchin in the senate - pass the covid relief bill and Inflation reduction act - even if they were watered down.
2) Primary Manchin with some other Democrat who meets your wishes - lose the West Virginia senate seat by 20 points. Have the Republicans control the senate and pass nothing
In an ideal world - you win Nevada (which they will) and Georgia so you can have those Manchin and Sinema battle against each other to get what they want. But the Democrats should be on the knees thanking Manchin every day for giving them a chance to pass anything because they have a 0% chance of holding a West Virginia senate seat without him.
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I understand all this. It doesn't change the fact that he's a right wing coal industry bootlicker. The idea that he's some sort of "centrist pragmatist" or "voice of reason" is laughable.
Dems really should be able to win enough senate seats to make the point moot. But they're heavily disadvantaged by the disproportionate power small states have over big states. It can't be justified that Wyoming has as much power as California in the senate, but it does anyway.