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Is your argument now that Castle would only draw votes from registered republicans, and that independents and democrats weren’t among his supporters who would have stayed home?

Remember, Castle was about the most liberal “republican” in the country. That was the reason he had to be defeated. It seems odd now to try to argue that his support was only among registered republicans, especially given that when the registered republicans voted in the primary, he LOST.

I know you were involved in running political campaigns, so I have to assume you are intelligent enough to not really believe that a 44-43 exit poll against a candidate who wasn’t ON the ballot means that candidate couldn’t win.

And we haven’t even mentioned that a sizable part of O’Donnell’s voter base would never have said in an exit poll that they would vote for Castle. IN fact, I could see a lot of them saying they would have voted for Coons, precisely so they could make this stupid argument now.

Just be happy that O’Donnell, for all her flaws, managed with Palin’s help to keep Castle from winning the republican nomination. You should be PROUD that Castle was stopped, not trying to argue that he wouldn’t have won anyway.

You know that, by arguing that “he wouldn’t have won”, you are actually giving credence to those who say that if he could have won, he should have been the nominee, regardless of his views. Otherwise, there would be no reason to make the argument.

Is your argument now that Castle would only draw votes from registered republicans, and that independents and democrats weren’t among his supporters who would have stayed home?

You are trying to change the argument to avoid the point. I make no such argument, I am pointing to what the voters themselves said in the exit polls.

I think there is no reason to think that Democrats or Independents would have voted for Castle. Why vote for a phony liberal when you can vote for a real liberal, Chris Coons? As a Democrat, why vote for second best?

The issue in 2010 was control of the US Senate by the Democrats. Those content to tolerate Castle in Delaware's US House seat as a curiosity would have had a very different attitude of taking control of the US Senate away from the Democrats and their beloved Obama and Joe Biden (the local Democrat home boy).

The fact that Castle had won an uncontroversial seat in the past is NO indication that with control of the US Senate at stake Democrats would have handed control of the US Senate to Republicans by voting for Castle. Democrats would not have voted for Republican committee chairmen, a Republican Majority Leader, and a Republican agenda by voting for Castle.