A look at the Supreme Court race

Orion Strategies has released a poll on the WV court race.

Before going into this, bear in mind that only 368 were questioned and the poll has a margin of error of +/- 5 points, which covers the spread between the top 3 candidates. Also 40% are undecided.

The poll has Ketchum in the lead (apparently, heavy advertising pays off, especially when its focus is to get voters to know your name.)

Workman follows, already being a well-known name and having formerly served on the court.

Maynard and Bastress take up the rear. Bastress has nowhere near the financing of Ketchum, so that's no surprise.

Probably not a good sign for Maynard, who as chief justice is already well-known. He's also got an ad blitz in his favor going on. (and a sizeable one against him, too) If the vote plays out anything like this poll, the Blankenship photos are going to sink him.

From the Gazette:

The poll asked voters to name their top two choices for the office. Ketchum was named easily led as the first choice of 24 percent of poll respondents. Workman was named more times as the second choice than the others, with 18 percent.

Pollsters then combined the two rankings for each candidate, leaving Ketchum at 18 percent and Workman at 17 percent.

Incumbent Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard ran third in the poll with 13 percent, just ahead of West Virginia University law professor Bob Bastress, who polled at 12 percent.