Neil Gillies, chairman of the Democratic Party in HardyCounty, agrees that bureaucratic interference and cultural affronts have sapped the president's popularity.
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Mike Teets, the only Republican on the HardyCounty Commission, denies that race has anything to do with local antipathy towards Mr Obama.
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Asked what has got West Virginia's goat, Shelley Moore Capito, who represents HardyCounty in Congress, mentions onerous regulation a familiar refrain among her fellow Republicans.
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