Governor Joe Manchin has been an outstanding Governor. This clearly explains the impressive numbers in the survey of West Virginia voters by Mark Blankenship Enterprises. Manchin’s overall approval rating was 78 percent.
Unless Manchin is planning in 2012 to seek a U. S. Senate seat or run for the House of Representatives these numbers serve little political purpose.
Of course, he can use them to press his agenda in the Legislature. It is there that his numbers really count at this point.