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Title: Tomblin, Maloney Square Off in West Virginia Governor's Race Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 03, 2011, 05:22:05 PM http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/almost-republican-heaven_594744.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Quote Maloney is hoping to win tomorrow’s special election for governor. His Democratic opponent is Earl Ray Tomblin, the state senate president for the last 16 years and a fixture in the West Virginia politics since the 1970s. Maloney, on the other hand, is a businessman and a political rookie who won a surprising primary victory earlier this year against a former secretary of state. “During the primary we were down fourteen points in the last week,” says Maloney. These days, the trends are going in his direction. According to an April survey by Public Policy Polling, Maloney was a staggering 33 points behind Tomblin. Three weeks ago, Tomblin’s lead was cut down to six points, and today PPP calls the race a toss-up, with Maloney down by just one point. “The more people learn about us, the more people like us,” says Maloney. An engineer and an entrepreneur in the mining and drilling industries, Maloney developed “Plan B,” which contributed to the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners last year. Born in Syracuse, he moved to Charleston after graduating from Lehigh University and now lives in Morgantown. Title: Re: Tomblin, Maloney Square Off in West Virginia Governor's Race Post by: BAMAWV on October 03, 2011, 08:43:27 PM http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/almost-republican-heaven_594744.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter "Friends of Coal"Quote Maloney is hoping to win tomorrow’s special election for governor. His Democratic opponent is Earl Ray Tomblin, the state senate president for the last 16 years and a fixture in the West Virginia politics since the 1970s. Maloney, on the other hand, is a businessman and a political rookie who won a surprising primary victory earlier this year against a former secretary of state. “During the primary we were down fourteen points in the last week,” says Maloney. These days, the trends are going in his direction. According to an April survey by Public Policy Polling, Maloney was a staggering 33 points behind Tomblin. Three weeks ago, Tomblin’s lead was cut down to six points, and today PPP calls the race a toss-up, with Maloney down by just one point. “The more people learn about us, the more people like us,” says Maloney. An engineer and an entrepreneur in the mining and drilling industries, Maloney developed “Plan B,” which contributed to the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners last year. Born in Syracuse, he moved to Charleston after graduating from Lehigh University and now lives in Morgantown. Title: Re: Tomblin, Maloney Square Off in West Virginia Governor's Race Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 03, 2011, 09:14:19 PM http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/almost-republican-heaven_594744.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter "Friends of Coal"Quote Maloney is hoping to win tomorrow’s special election for governor. His Democratic opponent is Earl Ray Tomblin, the state senate president for the last 16 years and a fixture in the West Virginia politics since the 1970s. Maloney, on the other hand, is a businessman and a political rookie who won a surprising primary victory earlier this year against a former secretary of state. “During the primary we were down fourteen points in the last week,” says Maloney. These days, the trends are going in his direction. According to an April survey by Public Policy Polling, Maloney was a staggering 33 points behind Tomblin. Three weeks ago, Tomblin’s lead was cut down to six points, and today PPP calls the race a toss-up, with Maloney down by just one point. “The more people learn about us, the more people like us,” says Maloney. An engineer and an entrepreneur in the mining and drilling industries, Maloney developed “Plan B,” which contributed to the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners last year. Born in Syracuse, he moved to Charleston after graduating from Lehigh University and now lives in Morgantown. Both of them or just the GOP candidate? |