voters, you get a range of opinions. no one really agrees on everything. but what we did hear is there is a deep respect for manchin in west virginia. they feel he is delivering for the state and they like the fact that, you know, he is focusing on bipartisanship. and in a way, sticking an eye finger in an eye of some national democrats by doing so. and not going along with the party. of course, you know, west virginia has gone through such a dramatic change, politically, from a democratic bastian to a ruby-red republican state. but he has signalled he s not going to do that. the other thing that stuck out is just how different life in west virginia is, than the one that manchin grew up in. you know, he grew up in farmington, west virginia, a tiny town in marion county. it s this idyllic life where he worked at his grandparents grocery store and he really was like a high school hero. high school football star in the town. and we were in farmington. that has really changed. that life