Why West Virginia Really Doesn’t Care

What Nobel laureate Robert Reich suggests here makes sense.  But sadly, rationality plays a very limited role in the minds of West Virginia voters.

Yes, too many of them are ill and poor, and they travel around on infrastructure that resembles something out of the mid-20th Century.  But here, their defining characteristic is that they suffered through a low-quality education, which is the linchpin that makes the election of people like Joe Manchin possible.