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Posted: 8:38 PM Aug 28, 2010
West Virginia Governor Wins Democratic Senate Nomination
Popular West Virginia Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin easily won his party's nomination and will face Republican primary winner John Raese in the race for the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Robert C. Byrd.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Popular West Virginia Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin easily won his party's nomination and will face Republican primary winner John Raese in the race for the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Robert C. Byrd.
Raese, a wealthy businessman, defeated a crowded field of GOP
candidates. He now becomes key to the GOP's quest to dismantle the
Democratic Senate majority. Democrats are clinging to the majority
as high unemployment and the slow economic recovery take a toll on
their political prospects this fall.
The 60-year-old Raese lost to Byrd in 2006.
Saturday's primary came two months after Byrd, the Senate's longest-serving member, died at the age of 92.
Mountain Party candidate Jesse Johnson is also vying for the seat in November.
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