Posted on 10/26/2010 9:12:37 AM PDT by facedodge
If months of fighting uphill have worn on Christine O’Donnell, it doesn’t show: the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate recently waded into a crowd of supporters at Fisherman’s Wharf in Lewes all smiles, bright and effervescent.
The people waiting for her are more than supporters – they’re fans, nearly every one clad in the powder-blue campaign T-shirt. They lean in close when they talk, speaking in hushed, reverent tones. One presents a copy of Peter Lillback’s “George Washington’s Sacred Fire,” a 1,200-page doorstop about Washington’s Christian faith.
O’Donnell is a political outsider, she said, and her supporters are outsiders, too, people disillusioned with party politics.
“What my campaign represents is putting political power back in the hands of the people,” she said. “And that’s why we’ve earned the support of grassroots folks all across the state – people outside of the political system.”
O’Donnell was catapulted to national fame after upsetting party favorite Mike Castle in the primary. Since then, support from the Delaware GOP has been tepid; Castle refuses to endorse her candidacy.
“The state party has chosen to sit this one out,” she said. “Same thing on the national level.” Which is not to say she’s hurting for financial support – as of Sept. 30, O’Donnell’s campaign had raised $4 million. O’Donnell said her supporters include a number of Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary.
While her populist message taps into the sentiment espoused by California-based political action committee Tea Party Express, she shied from calling herself a tea party candidate. Her constituency, she said, is anyone fed up with the status quo.
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I don’t think she’ll win this election but I think she’ll stick around and have a shot at winning the next one. She’s laying good groundwork for a comeback.
This race is not over, in either direction. I’ll be working the get-out-the-vote effort in DE next Tuesday, and I hope other area Freepers will be helping in either DE or PA. We’re close enough that turnout might make the difference.
TCJ has COD within 6 points today (50-44) that confirms the Tea Party express poll which showed the same result yesterday.
Something tells me this whippersnapper is going to pull this out.
:)
To be fair this poll was taken over the weekend when Pete DuPont issued his endorsement of COD which many voters may not have heard about until this week after the poll was conducted. There is always a lag time between event and reaction especially when it is momentous which posters on FR from Delaware say it was.
Isn’t that what the polls showed Castle winning by just before the primary ? :-)
Dick Morris said last night that he believes the Republicans really may be polling 2-3% under the more accurate numbers. If this is true this race may be tied right now. I’m still saying COD wins this one.
I am praying for that outcome! Scot Brown was down 16 points two weeks out in Mass! I really think she can pull this off, she just needs o keep sprinting towards that finish line with her eye on the prize!
TCJ is complete BS.
Stop talking about it.
But, of course, Christine sometimes does, so ...
who knows.
I’d prefer that we didn’t embrace completely made up stuff as truth. Oh well.
“TCJ has COD within 6 points today (50-44) that confirms the Tea Party express poll which showed the same result yesterday.”
This is going to be a much closer race than anyone thinks. The recent polls showing Coons up 16 are not accurate. This is mid single digits at this point. With a good GOP turnout and good independent vote for O’Donnell it could be low single digits or even better. Who knows? It’s not over, people. Do you think Coons is such an inspiring charismatic candidate that the Dems will come out in droves and vote for this man? I don’t think so. There’s no energy in that campaign. He’s a dead fish. O’Donnell is not out of this race. A perfect storm is what O’Donnell needs. In this election cycle and political climate, a perfect storm could be the norm.
Christine won the nomination in a landslide. That was not suppose to happen either.
What is TCJ?
There hasn’t been a poll on this race since 10/14 Rasmussen
These are the polls.
If TPE wants to provide actual numbers, I’d tend to believe them. But all TPE said was 6%. Didn’t even give the actual percentages for the candidates.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/de/delaware_senate_oadonnell_vs_coons-1670.html
Real Clear Politics poll average.
I do think she’s doing better than the polls indicate, but
TCJ is NOT A REAL POLL.
And it appears that this TPE poll isn’t either.
It stands for “The Conservative Journal” Until recently it was an obscure blog. Now, it’s a major polling organization, with the resources to poll 5 races twice a week. They do more work than PPP. But PPP provides a pdf to their results.
Or, it’s an obscure blog making up numbers. I’d say there’s no evidence whatsoever that it’s not an obscure blog making up numbers. Even though they decided to up the ante by saying that they’re talking about polling 1000 likely voters instead of 500 likely voters.
They’re just making it up. Total 100% BS.
Those numbers are two weeks old. I’m sure she’s doing better now.
I’m just waiting for Rasmussen’s numbers.
How do you know they’re making it up!
The “Polls” on this race have been REALLY wierd and sporadic. What gives? Are there ANY DE FreePs that have ANY inside info on this?
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