Castle's ACU rating in 2008 was 28%, in 2009 56%. And it went up because it was the year before election year. Castle voted FOR Cap and Trade and didn't know until 3 days prior to the vote on Obamacare, that he would vote against it.
If Christine loses a number of factors are causal, but certainly the refusal of many in the establishment to support her. There's a Congressional race in PA where a candidate is losing because of the same problem, but with people on the right. Frankly, I'm tired of poor sports in both groups. They both help to turn Conservative/Republican Victories into defeat.
Agreed, 100%. Publicly we should virtually always be supporting the GOP nominee. Our fights need to be within the Republican primary. It is inexcusable that Castle refused to support O'Donnell. Castle proved himself to be every bit the RINO jacka** so many people believed he was. It is just as inexcusable that many, many people right here on Free Republic refuse to support GOP nominees who won their primaries like Kirk in Illinois. As much as we may not like the winner, our opportunity to get our favorite candidate nominated was in the primary. We actually have a lot of people here who are going to flush their vote down the crapper in Illinois by voting for a Libertarian (Labno) - a Libertarian the Democratic party is actually helping in hopes it splinters off enough conservative voters to get Giannoulias elected.
Saying that, discussing our nominees amongst ourselves is a very important conversation to have. We have clearly nominated some seriously terrible candidates like COD, Paladino, Maes, and now Miller is self destructing. We need to make certain to vet candidates before throwing our support behind them and also factor in very heavily which potential nominees CAN actually win. COD just wasn't a good choice and it is important that movement conservatives and grass roots activists learn something from this upcoming debacle.