There are people who think Joe Manchin is a good Democrat. Manchin, 74, represents the state of West Virginia, a very poor, very white and very Republican state in the US Senate. Donald Trump won it in the last election with 69 percent of the vote. Normally, West Virginia would be one of those small provincial states in the USA that hardly plays any political role.
secluded. Sparsely populated. Meaningless. More people live in the New York borough of Brooklyn than in all of West Virginia, there are 1.8 million, and it's safe to assume that on the streets of Brooklyn few could name a single West Virginia city.
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