# Switching Parties After an Election

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-parties-after-an-election/792767>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 4, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-parties-after-an-election/792767 "2017-08-04T13:37:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-parties-after-an-election/792767/41 "2017-08-11T04:52:58Z")

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> [@Bullitt](#):
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> Coal is certainly dying off. We’re moving to cleaner fuels, you can’t deny that, but you still don’t say to WV coal people, “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business”.
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> Great bedside manner there.
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> ETA: I understand the context in which she said that, but still, it was a bad move.

Yeah, definitely. Not so much for West Virginia, but there are parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania where even if coal mining isn’t a massive part of the economy, it’s still an important part of the local culture.

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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/switching-parties-after-an-election/792767/42 "2017-08-14T00:27:00Z")

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I’m not sure what thread this belongs in but since there’s a concrete link to the post Bandit bungles of West Virginia governor Buford T. Justice (those are the same dude right?) I’ll put it here.

Here’s the theory…

1. Justice switches to Republican party
2. Rick Perry resigns from Energy to take over DHS
3. Joe Manchin appointed Secretary of Energy and resigns his senate seat
4. Justice appoints a Republican as interim senator from WV until a special election can be held.
5. Obamacare repealed via 51-50 vote in the Senate. (Suck it McCain)

I don’t know why Manchin would go along with this, but I also don’t know a ton about Joe Manchin.

Is there any reason to take this speculation seriously?

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