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But if you genuinely forget about all the Republicans that got Manchin elected, I'll lend a hand.

By your post we got Sanders beating Clinton 51-36. In raw votes we got 124k-86k roughly.

In the general we have Trump beating Clinton 68.5-26.4. Raw vote 489k-189k.

In the 2018 midterms we have Manchin winning 49.6-46.2. Raw vote 291k-271k.

Let's be generous and give 2018 Manchin 100% of the 2016 general Clinton raw vote despite midterm turnout and all that. That leaves 102,000 votes he got from somewhere. That's close by itself to Sanders's vote total in the primary! Hell, Iet's deduct the 5.1% "other" vote from the 2016 general from that 102k too just in case, still left with 67,500 voters.

Add those to the Clinton voters in the primary and Sanders would be losing by 30,000 votes in that primary.

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(If the point was supposed to be that WV is secretly some bastion of socialism just waiting to rise up when the time is right, it's not a great point. You could add Clinton's primary raw vote, her general raw vote, and Sanders's primary vote all together as if they were all somehow unique voters who never overlapped and you have... 500,000 voters. Trump got 489,000 in the general alone.)
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