The filing deadline for West Virginia
came and went. Of the four Congressional races, there will be two Democratic primaries...
WV-SEN: Robert Byrd does in fact have a primary challenger, a fellow by the name of Billy Hendricks Jr. I can find little on him--
Politics1 has no website, listing his experience only as "auto worker", but for those upset at Byrd over Alito, there is
someone at least on the proper ballot. On the Republican side there are six duking it out for that nomination--local media baron and industrialist John Raese, fundamentalist optometrist Zane Lawhorn, former AG candidate Hiram Lewis, former Congressional candidate Rick Snuffer, former gubernatorial candidate Bud Railey, and "Paul J. Brown of Summersville", who seems to exist for the purpose of filing an application for the 2006 Senate race.
WV-02: As of this moment it is a three-way Democratic primary between former WV-Dem chair Mike Callaghan, Kanawha County delegate Mark Hunt, and the formerly Republican mayor of South Charleston, Richard Robb, perhaps best known for threatening to become a faithless elector in the '04 Electoral College. The winner faces Shelley Moore-Capito, who is running an unopposed primary.
WV-03: Nick Joe Rahall is running unopposed in the primary, while the GOP has a primary between Cabell County Sheriff Kim Wolfe and Marty Gearheart, who lost to the aforementioned Rick Snuffer in the primary two years ago.
WV-01: Alan Mollohan is running unopposed in the Democratic primary, and Chris Wakim, delegate from Ohio County, is likewise the only Republican running for that seat.