Perception is everything.  

The West Virginia voters listened to Obama and Hillary say coal-fired plants had to go away because they were too polluting.  

That coal shouldn't be permitted on trains.  

That coal shouldn't be allowed to be exported.

They did hear Hillary, the Democratic Presidential Candidate  "tell a town hall audience in Columbus, Ohio in March that "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."

"Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels".

She also said she would remember them, but that was an afterthought, not the main message.

That is why they voted for Trump.  

That is why a Democratic Senator in West Virginia may not get re-elected in 2018.