The Charleston Daily Mail meets with 8 of the 10 Republicans looking to run in the special Senate election in West Virginia this fall -- probably against Gov. Joe Manchin -- and the general argument is the centrist governor would be pulled to the left by the Obama administration.

Meanwhile, Republican congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito -- who decided not to run in that race -- would be the leading candidate to replace Manchin as the state's exec, a poll says.