The TV networks called the race early and it was not very close. (As of 11 AM today, the AP had Republican Shelley Moore Capito easily winning with most of the ballots counted.) Still, that is no reason not to provide results. Of course, that would have meant that they would need to print Paula Jean Searengin’s name – something that the locals have not done, with one exception,* since they printed the results of the primary election.

Please remember: Ogden Newspapers owe “no allegiance to any faction, special interest, political party or individual politician.”

*On September 14, Steven Allen Adams wrote:

As of Aug. 5, Sabato’s Crystal Ball also places West Virginia in the deep red for the U.S. Senate, where Republican Shelley Moore Capito is seeking a second term and challenged by Democrat Paula Jean Swearengin, the same person who challenged U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin for the Democratic primary for Senate in 2018.

Other than that sentence, the Ogden record would have been perfect on Swearengin.

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