He’s more powerful these days as a Democrat. I started a thread about it.
Originally Posted by bambino
He could easily switch parties and win in WV, but then like you suggest he would just be one of fifty Republicans in the Senate instead of THE swing vote whose ass everyone has to kiss.
... Hold on there, mates. I used to live over WV-way. Manchin has always been the same. Votes this-way and then that-way... More curves and twists and stops and starts than the bleedin' French Mille Bourne!
Surely about as conservative as John McCain - which is why he got a "D" by his name.
Maybe this time he'll surprise us and stick to his guns all the way.
Let's not soak him - yet.