He had 3 million and the Delaware Republican Party in his pocket and couldn't beat "a flawed candidate".
The ridiculous lengths people go to to avoid placing this loss in the lap of the Delaware Republican Party is beyond absurd.
Despite the fact that he was not the favorite of the conservative base, he ran a very close campaign in the primary.
His track record includes 14 successful general election victories in DE to O'Donnell's three failed ones.
Everyone knows that the most conservative voters turn out for GOP state primaries.
He had 3 million and the Delaware Republican Party in his pocket and couldn't beat "a flawed candidate".
He had 3.5 million - most of which he had budgeted to spend after the primary.
O'Donnell actually raised $5 million, after all was said and done over the cycle.
The ridiculous lengths people go to to avoid placing this loss in the lap of the Delaware Republican Party is beyond absurd.
Who is avoiding it? It is absolutely the fault of the Delaware GOP: they picked a candidate who could not win a general election in their state.
It's not necessarily O'Donnell's fault taht she ran a bad campaign. For all we know, that was the best she was capable of.
17 points. It’s the candidate. I love how people who obviously have lived a life on this planet can somehow postulate a different reality where the difference between losing and winning an election is how strongly supportive Carl Rove or the “Delaware Republican Party” is for their nominee.
If it was that easy, we’d elect 100 senators. Unfortunately, in the real world we actually have to find candidates that can get a majority of the VOTERS to support them, not the political party or an over-hyped pundit.
O’Donnell is a kind of flaky individual with what seems to be a good heart, but who doesn’t seem very good at managing finances, doing simple math (like telling the difference between winning and losing the vote in a county), or even being able to project a good conservative image.
Nor was she able to pull together a winning campaign team; some would say she was hampered by not paying her previous team and turning them against her, but in any case neither she nor her team seemed to understand how horribly wrong her first campaign commercial was, or how easily it could have been fixed.
In fact, it might well be that the democrats, by emphasising the delaware race, sending their top hitters there and getting it on national news, were able to kill several other of our candidates by association. Toomey definitely spoke as it O’Donnell made HIS life a lot harder, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the “average voter” took O’Donnell as the “face of the tea party” and were turned against Buck, Angle, and Miller.