Mine closings not likely to turn Va elections

Published September 23, 2012 1:01pm ET



NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Hurt as they might, last week’s mine closings in southwestern Virginia are not likely to matter much in this fall’s presidential race.

Alpha Natural Resources is closing three mines in Virginia coal country, and five elsewhere in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

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