In what appears to be yet another Democrat trying to avoid giving their opponent a soundbite, U.S. Senate candidate Natalie Tennant wouldn’t explicitly say she voted for President Obama.
All five West Virginia U.S. Senate candidates attended a Charleston Daily Mail editorial board meeting Thursday, and one of the last questions asked was who each voted for in the 2012 election (you can watch the meeting here, the question is asked around the 1:11:00 mark).
U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, the Republican candidate, said without hesitation that she voted for Gov. Mitt Romney, and noted that all 55 counties in West Virginia did as well.
But Tennant simply said she “voted for the Democratic Party” and went on to complain about Obama.
“But I am as angry as anybody about Barack Obama and his attitude toward West Virginia and his attitude toward coal,” Tennant said, adding that she invited Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy to West Virginia and then protested the agency’s coal regulations.
Tennant was a bit more forthcoming than other Democrats who have recently refused to say whether they voted for Obama in 2012, such as Kentucky candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, who has been dogged by her refusal to answer. Other Democratic lawmakers have bent over backwards trying to distance themselves from Obama.
