At a rally a few miles from the West Virginia border on Tuesday, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden predicted he and Sen. Barack Obama would win West Virginia in the Nov. 4 presidential election.
According to NBC's Mike Memoli, Biden asked the crowd in St. Clairsville, Ohio, "Which way is West-By-God-Virginia?" He then said, "I want to send a message to West Virginia -- we're going to win in West Virginia! ... We're going to shock the living devil out of y'all!"
St. Clairsville is a few miles west of Wheeling. Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska was also there on Sunday, after flying into Huntington earlier that day and traveling along the Ohio side of the Ohio River all day.
West Virginia, once thought to be a solid state for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, is now considered a toss-up state by several national political analysts. The only poll conducted so far this month, by American Research Group, showed Obama leading McCain by eight percentage points. Several polls conducted in September showed McCain with a lead of several points.
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Pallin isn't doing that well with the conservative base either. But that isn't the reason McCain picked her though. It was a sleazy attempt to gain the disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters. We saw the start of that during the Democratic Convention with the Rs hosting a Clinton supporter "get together" in the hotel across the street.