KY about how the people there are pretty much fed up with politicians of all stripes and flavors. When you see the incredible poverty in those areas, you can see why they feel that way. They visited eastern KY, which is even poorer than most parts of WV. When I lived in WV, I knew people who had friends and relatives that lived there, and the stories they told were downright scary. They have very dangerous pot growers who put land mines and other booby traps around their fields. Corruption is as endemic as the poverty. In Clay county, the per capita income is $9700 per year. That is so far below the poverty line that it isn't even within hailing distance for most of the people there. Unemployment is high, and the people there said they can't even afford the gas to go somewhere outside the area to look for work.

Nothing that any of the candidates have said will help those people one bit. That's the biggest mistake that both parties are making. Begin to do something substantive to help people like this (and there are literally millions of them, especially in Appalachia), and you will take every political office there is, from the presidency to congress on down. We are the richest nation on earth, and yet we still have people living in abject poverty while CEOs rake in bonuses in just one year that are more than all the people in Clay county will make in their lives combined. Doesn't anyone see anything just the least bit wrong in that?????