It is impressive that the lead is not bigger here at the start. She will have funding. Her foe is not very good and does not have the advantage of incumbancy. Few of his negatives have gotten much attention. All of the negatives about her have been fully vetted. So ... there is really no place to go but up.
If she runs a flawless campaign, she can win. I’m not a fan of moral victories, but this will end up rather close come November even if she runs a less-than-flawless campaign. The Dems will have to spend a lot, a lot, a lot of money defending this seat. They simply can NOT afford to lose it.
I predict that this will narrow, and as it does it will turn into one of the hardest fought and most closely watched campaigns of the fall. A victory for the Republican Party here would make an upset for the ages.
I agree that O’Donnell will close this race significantly. She has absorbed very serious body blows from Rove, Krauthammer and the GOP establishment. All of the news has essentially been the meme that she’s a kook, flake, and now witch . Short of Rove, however, this is shifting. She was running essentially her campaign out of her kitchen with 1 or 2 staffers. There was a piece yesterday on yahoo about her campaign now morphing into a true, first class, senatorial campaign complete with serious, experienced managers and staffers. Check out her website (christine2010.com) - it’s significantly more developed than just 48 hrs ago and is no longer amateurish. Plus, now with a couple million $ on hand and the prospect of raising more quickly, she has started ad campaigns. These will only increase. Dems don’t believe this is a “gimme” election. Note that Biden has already been in Del. campaigning w/Reid’s pet. No GOP heavies have come to Del. yet. That will change soon.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the race is in single digits by as soon as next week.
on another note,who ever thought we had so many with loser mentality on FR....