>>> She was never ahead in that race. There was ONE poll, taken months before the primary vote, where she was 2 points ahead with a huge number of undecideds. At no point in the last three months before the election did she come close to being ahead of Coons.
However the misunderstanding is understandable. The O’Donnell cheerleaders for a long time would mislead the readers by quoting that early poll, and ignoring each month’s new disastrous poll results. This dishonesty was the first warning that told me something was very very wrong in this campaign.
There was only one point at which I thought she might win, and that was after she got millions of dollars in that 24-hour money marathon.
My hope was she’d take that money, hire a couple of veteran cmapaign folks, who could do two or three hard-hitting ads that emphasized conservative principles that would turn our economy around.
Instead, she got talked into doing a witch commercial, she cancelled her weekend show appearances, and ended up with money in the bank.