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Manchin, key Senate swing vote, boosts West Virginia's hopes

by Cuneyt Dil
| March 5, 2021 11:03 PM

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia has long proclaimed itself “Almost Heaven,” a nod to a song and soaring mountaintop vistas. Now some joke the state name-checked in “Take Me Home, Country Roads” could take things up a notch as Democratic U.S. Sen Joe Manchin bargains his way through Congress.

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