Talk:2011 West Virginia gubernatorial special election

Major candidates
In West Virginia, the Democratic, Republican, and Mountain parties have guaranteed ballot access on the basis of their performance in past elections. It seems that listing their candidates is an objective way of who is determining who is a "major" candidate.

To the best of my knowledge, there have been no surveys conducted after the Democratic and Republican parties held their primaries. Excluding Baber from the list of candidates when all of the polling is pre-primary, Baber was never polled, and there is a large undecided block seems inappropriate. Bitmapped (talk) 01:02, 5 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Doesn't the fact that nobody considers them when conducting a poll indicate that they are an insignificant party that is unlikely to sway the results? Mountain Party candidates have never gained 5% or more of the vote in any statewide election to date. Rxguy (talk) 01:14, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * If there was a post-primary poll that excluded the Mountain Party candidate, perhaps. But there has not been.  Bitmapped (talk) 01:38, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, until there is proof that he could play a significant role in the election it is probably best to leave him omitted from the election box as his party has not yet proven itself to be a major party when it comes to statewide elections. Let's face it, it's a liberal group in a state that is more socially conservative and votes for moderate Democrats. Rxguy (talk) 03:03, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Declined
That's the way it's always been done? So what?! These people have absolutely no connection to the election. They just happen to be West Virginia politicians, and guess what? They didn't run for governor. Is the reader too stupid to assume that anyone not listed as running simply isn't running? Brooks McCabe said he would run but later changed his mind, so he could be mentioned, but it is completely meaningless to include the Republicans who declined. There are dozens of WV politicians who could have run, and every one of them declined except those who didn't. So why list those who happen to have publicly said No, or said nothing and never got in the race. They are simply irrelevant and should not be included in the article. Reywas92 Talk 03:49, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

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