so, you don’t think Christine O’Donnell’s loss had anything to do with Christine O’Donell? or the voters of New Hampshire maybe just a little bit? Maybe even Bill Maher?
Castles lack of support, the DE GOPs lack of support, Rove and the neocon attacks after the general - all hurt.
What hasn’t been mentioned very much at all was how much Obama helped and Biden helped by going to Delaware.
The Black Female turnout was huge. 14% of voters were black females. 11% of the population of Delaware are black females.
That’s strong turnout. And they voted for Coons 95%. A huge margin of votes there. 21% were non white Democrats and they went for Coons 95%. Take out those 21% non white Democrats, and Christine wins - she had more votes than Coons with those who are not non white Democrats.
If the turnout wasn’t stronger than whites (typically blacks don’t vote as regularly as whites) and if Coons didn’t get 95% of blacks, the election would have been a lot closer, and things like Roves anti Conservativism wouldn’t matter as much.