WEST VIRGINIA
     Nov. 2, 2010 U.S. Senate (Special Election)                    

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+Joe Manchin (D)
283,358
53.47%
John Raese (R)
230,013
43.40%
Jesse Johnson Jr. (M)
10,152
1.92%
Jeffrey Becker (C)
6,425
1.21%

529,948

Registration: 1,216,023.  Ballots cast: 535,152.
Plurality: 53,345 votes (10.07 percentage points).

WV Secretary of State



Notes:  Sen. Robert Byrd (D), the longest serving U.S. Senator—he was first elected to the Senate in 1958 and served more than 51 years—died at 92 on June 28, 2010.  On July 16 Gov. Joe Manchin (D) appointed Carte Goodwin, his former chief counsel, to temporarily fill the seat.  A special election was set, and on July 20 Manchin announced his candidacy.

 
In the Aug. 28 Democratic special primary election, Manchin (73.06%) defeated Ken Hechler (17.27%) and Sheirl Lee Fletecher (9.67%) of 94,202 votes tallied.  In the Republican special primary Raese (71.31%) defeated Andrew McCoy Warner (14.82%) and eight other candidates in single digits of 54,084 votes tallied.

Raese, president and CEO of Greer Industries, was making his fourth statewide campaign in West Virginia; he was the Republican nominee for Senate in 1984, challenged Gov. Arch Moore (R) in 1988, and was again the Senate nominee in 2006.
 
All four candidates participated in a debate co-sponsored  by the Associated Press and WVU's P.I. Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia Public Broadcasting studios in Morgantown on Oct. 18 (>).


Campaign Managers:
Joe Manchin:  Sara Payne Scarbro
(July 201)  Press secretary/communications director in the Office of Gov. Manchin, Jan. 2009-July 2010.  Campaign manager on Gov. Manchin's re-election, Jan.-Nov. 2008.  Deputy press secretary to Govs. Manchin and Gov. Bob Wise, July 2004-Jan. 2008.  B.A. in journalism and political science from Marshall University, 2003.

John Raese:  Jim Dornan

(Aug. 2010)  Senior vice president at Artemis Strategies from Jan. 2006.  Campaign manager on Friends of Katherine Harris (for U.S. Senate in FL), June-Dec. 2005.  Vice president at Russ Reid Co., Jan. 2002-June 2005.  Chief of staff to U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt, 1999-May 2001.  Chief of staff in the office of Lt. Gov Hager of Virginia, Dec. 1998-Sept. 1999.  Chief of staff to Rep. Richard Burr, 1994-97.  B.A. in history and political science from The Catholic University of America.


See also:
Erik Eckholm.  "Run for a Seat Thought Safe Turns Into a Battle."  The New York Times, Oct. 6, 2010.

Robert Hendin.  "Joe Manchin Makes It Official: He's Running for West Virginia Senate."  CBS News, July 20, 2010.

Shira Toeplitz.  "Goodwin gets W.Va. Senate nod."  Politico, July 16, 2010.





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