The Nation's Road Ruts

"Country roads, take me home,

To the place I belong,

West Virginia, mountain mama,

Take me home, country roads."

If John Denver were to write that song these days, its lyrics might become "Trump country roads." After all, Donald Trump won West Virginia by a margin of more than 42 percentage points over Hillary Clinton.

And West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's "mountain mama" didn't raise no fool. Sen. Manchin is fighting for his political life, doing whatever he can to make sure the state's voters don't take him home from Washington, D.C., and replace him with a member of Trump's party.

It's one o...