Posted on 11/06/2010 1:49:30 PM PDT by nhwingut
The National Republican Senatorial Committee spent $3 million in the week before the election on the ill-fated campaign of Carly Fiorina, despite polling that showed her trailing by 9 points to the tiny Marxist Barbara Boxer (Fiorina ended up losing by... 9.8%).
In the mean time, Ken Buck lost by a tiny margin in Colorado; Nevada's Sharron Angle lost by a similar narrow vote total, Dino Rossi was edged by Patty Murray in Washington, 27,000 votes swung the election against Christine O'Donnell in Delaware and and Joe Miller is hanging by a thread in Alaska.
In Alaska, the final results may not be known for some time, but the NRSC's final ads actually ended up helping Lisa Murkowski in her write-in campaign against GOP nominee Joe Miller. Instead of attacking Murkowski -- the candidate who most threatened the party's nominee -- the NRSC instead took aim at Democrat Scott McAdams, who had no chance of winning. Any support they drove from McAdams was far more likely to go to Murkowski than to Miller -- meaning the NRSC effort probably did more harm than good for Miller's campaign.
In other words, the NRSC's idiocy -- combined with outrageous remarks by Karl Rove on national television -- likely doomed four or five true conservative candidates to extinction.
In the post-election debrief, the Nixonian RINO contingent of Whimsy Graham, John Cornyn and the rest of the NRSC's ludicrous cadre of losers blamed... staunch conservative Jim DeMint, who had funded a handful of Tea Party-backed Senatorial winners like Pat Toomey (PA), Marco Rubio (FL), Rand Paul (KY), Mike Lee (UT) and Ron Johnson (WI).
Oh, but that $8 million spent on Fiorina's campaign didn't hurt at all -- right, boys?
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Delaware is a tiny state. 27,000 votes is a huge margin in Delaware.
There were about 197,000 votes cast for Coons/O’Donnell with Coons getting 174,000 of them giving him a win by almost 51,000 votes. You are correct that 27,000 votes is a big swing in that election.
Christine O’Donnell isn’t an unknown in Delaware. She ran for the Senate in 2006 losing in the GOP primary and then entered the General election as a write-in. She then ran again in 2008 with no primary opponent against Biden. Then in 2010 she won the GOP primary against Castle and then lost to Coons in the General. She should have some name recognition with the voters after that many times on the ballot for the same position.
She maybe more of an asset in future elections by finding ways to help other candidates with their campaigns and helping educate the voting public as opposed to being the candidate herself.
197,000
s/b
297,000
Verdome is VerDONE! LOL
Based on your tag line and previous comment, should we call the hospital or undertaker?
I’ll call a vet ‘cuz you’re having a cow.
Maybe he has the “muleskinner blues”?
Oh well, then we should give a pass to these A-holes.
Rove and the NRSC were not one bit helpful and may have been all they needed to undermine Christinne.
The RNSC blatantly said they would not support Christinne as did the state org.
These Plicks even sent sent Graham and Alexander down to support Crist for the sole purpose of knee capping Rubio.
Thankfully a good American with a real backbone won but not for any support he recieved by our so called vaunted leaders.
Dems in 2006 ran as Blue Dog Democrats. Many of these Democrats got elected in red states. That mask is completely exposed and they'll get destroyed by real conservatives.
Also with our tremendous successes in state legislatures and in Governor races, this creates a farm team for the future. These candidates will have actual records to run on instead of making these vanity runs at Congress.
Nope. O'Donnell lost by over 50,000 votes.
So much for "pretty good analysis."
And the real number is closer to 51,000.....
I agree. If any Republican group is stupid enough to give Karl Rove money in the future, I will never contribute to them again.
I was already annoyed with Mr. Rove in 2008, when he poormouthed our candidates and their chances before the election, and this time around he has severed himself from the party as far as I am concerned.
Get me a better prescription
LOL.
Haven’t heard that one in years.
There is no good reason for RINOs to exist. They contribute nothing of value, and usually contribute damage to conservatives.
That is not “idiocy” Those floks are RINOs and think of conservatives the same way they think of Democrats, only more threatening to themselves.
Agree! That is how it is. NRSC is willing to lose seats to maintain control.
“Rove continues to gloat over being right about O’Donnell losing. Instead of helping her he did what he could to sabotage her and then taking credit for saying she would lose.”
GOP only helps those who help themselves. If Christine won, she would have been a national laughingstock for the next 2 years.
“It was intended sabotage by the McLame/Mittens/Bush/Rockefeller wings of the GOP. They are very afraid of the Tea Party.”
I would change that to anyone who actually believes in conservative principles, but it works fairly well for this election cycle. They would much rather lose than be beholden to the Tea Party or ANY scum-sucking conservative who isn’t a blue blood establishment republican.
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