Long time West Virginia Democrat Alan Mollohan has basically lost his primary bid tonight. Mollohan was one of the Stupak Bloc Blue Dogs. Normally I'd be glad to be rid of someone like him. But he lost his vote to someone even further to the right on the Blue Dog scale, Sen Mike Oliveiro. Olivero won a Democratic primary in West Virginia by throwing Obama under the bus in a state where John McCain beat Barack Obama in 2008 by 13 points.
They don't much like Obama in these parts. Even for a blue state, McCain cruised to victory here. And Olivero won primarily by attacking the pro health care reform vote of Mollohan.
I'm afraid WV isn't going to be a blue state much longer. You might as well write off Olivero too, he might actually switch parties to the GOP at the rate he's going to rip into Obama.
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