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Stop calling Don Blankenship a felon

By Becket Adams
Published May 10, 2018 8:41pm ET
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Stop calling Don Blankenship a felon
Republican Don Blankenship, who lost in West Virginia's GOP primary in May, is challenging his state's sore loser law and attempting to earn a spot on the ballot in the midterm elections. | (Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)

I did a bad thing.

On Wednesday, I wrote an article knocking the press for treating former coal baron Don Blankenship as a serious contender in the West Virginia Senate Republican primary. I still believe it was irresponsible for national media to give Blankenship the lion’s share of news coverage, especially considering his campaign took only 19.9 percent of the total vote.

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