What is up with the politicians in Kentucky and West Virginia? Don't they pay attention to Gallup polls?

For the sixth straight year, respondents to a 2014 Gallup poll about overall well-being found folks expressing the least degree of well-being in West Virginia, with Bluegrass State residents not far behind in 49th place. There oughta be a law against feelin' low in those states.

Meantime, the 49th state — Alaska — topped Gallup's list this year for the first time since the poll was launched by Gallup and its partner, Healthways, in 2008.

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