Castle would have won easily. That's not the point though. The point was made well by Jim DeMint when he said, "I would rather have 30 Marco Rubios in the Senate than 60 Arlen Spectors." Castle was a popular left leaning Republican in a Leftist state. He would have won easily but we don't need anymore of his type in our party.
O'Donnell's chances were slim and none from the outset.
No, Castle was a loser, who would have lost bigger than O’Donnell.
They were slim and none because she didn’t get the full support of the RNC and the entire party. Idiots like Tokyo Rove are more to blame than COD. She tried her best but was new at the game of running for the Senate and needed help she did not get.
How do you know? Christine won over the independents. They would have definitely stayed home or voted down-ticket had Castle been the Republican.
The NRSC can afford to give millionaire Carly $8 million when that money could have been spent to help Christine, Angle, and Buck.
The convential wisdom is that Castle would have won. The actuality is that Coons would have beaten him in a union-dominated state.
Ironic, isn’t it? GM, Chrysler and Valero refinery all shut down and STILL they vote for Democrats. Insanity, personifed.
Exit polls showed Castle would have lost too. We can take it as fact or debate that things would have looked completely different with a different primary outcome....but of those that votes, Coons would have won based on polls that day.
I think there is good evidence in other blue states that that this outcome could have been the case. We simply have too big of a voting disadvantage in these very blue states. In a same world we would have won this race in CT, NV, CA, CO and WA. Unfortunately, no matter how week the Dem candidate nor how good the GOP candidate, the deck is stacked against us in the current environment in the very blue states. While we are winning over independents, we are not making inroad yet in the ‘true blue’ areas where they still believe government is the answer, and public unions, Phd liberals and low income people on the take are going to vote themselves the bigger government every time.