Friday, October 31, 2014
"Capito Win Could Cap GOP Transformation of W.Va"
The popularity of political parties comes and goes.
Here's the recently remarkable West Virginia story...
Here's the recently remarkable West Virginia story...
At RealClearPolitics.com, Sean Trende has the details, and then sums up:
"If there’s a bigger lesson to be learned here, it is the utter unpredictability of politics, and the foolishness of making long-term predictions.
An observer suggesting in 1996 that a Republican Senate candidate would win a seat in the state by double digits within the next two decades would have received the sort of incredulous stare normally reserved for those who claim to have been abducted by UFOs. Yet we see these sorts of long-term predictions made confidently by both sides, on a routine basis.
If there’s any meaning to the 2014 West Virginia Senate contest, it is that we should proceed with the utmost humility when trying to predict the future."
