How so?
He’s a sell-out flake. He came out of the box attacking O’Donnell and cutting her legs out from under her campaign from DAY ONE.
Rove is responsible. Stop making excuses for the sleazeball.
You forget the RINO who made the town house hoax.
I’m 100% Christine, but Rove is not the primary reason Christine lost.
We don’t think of Delaware as a particularly liberal place. We think of Massachusetts as Liberal. And Delaware isn’t that Liberal. But 22% of the voters in November were black in Delaware. 14% black women. And those black women voted for Coons 95% of the time. Mass doesn’t have anywhere near the number of blacks that Delaware has. And blacks really still do like Obama. Obama came to Delaware for a get
out the vote rally, and the blacks did vote.
That’s the main reason.
There aren’t many Conservatives in Delaware at all. 29%.
Hawaii is 28% conservative, Rhode Island 29% conservative, every other state has more conservatives.
That’s another reason.
Karl Rove is not particularly well liked, neither is Krauthammer, or the other Bush / neocons who were attacking Christine. So, yes, the fact that Rove and the neocons were attacking the Conervative might’ve made the neocons in Delaware wary of Christine, could’ve kept them from going to the polls, possibly even voting for Coons. Neocons don’t like Christian conservative social values. And that’s what Christine is known for. See Krauthammer praising Obama these days. Neocons are not Conservative. They easily could become buddies with Obama. As long as they get what the want with foreign policy. The point is, though, there aren’t too many actual neocons. They aren’t a significant number of Republicans. Neocons and moderate / country club Republicans are not the same. Personally, I think that every single neocon is either on tv or writing. That’s an exaggeration, but neocons are at most 2% of the delaware electorate. Conservatives who want smaller government are 29%.
Another factor that I’m not quite sure of is voter registration in Sussex county. I’d want to see the new census figures for Sussex and the other 2 counties and see
if Sussex turnout per resident was below New Castle and Kent. I know that there’s been a lot of growth in the last 10 years, have the new people registered to vote? Based on the 2000 figures, Sussex didn’t seem to underperform.
But Karl Rove and his buddies are terrible and I’d like to see them go.
He had a little help from the other neocon political operatives (Krauthammer and Kondrake) bankrolled by FOX news.