[napscoordinator]

Most blame Karl Rove. If he can control elections certainly he is the most powerful politician in the country. I don’t think for a minute I would have any use for his opinion on who I vote for, but apparently many here thinks he has that ability to convince people to vote for who he wants or doesn’t want.

[rdcbn]

When you have one of the most influential Republicans like Carl Rove absolutely hammer a candidate it really hurts.

Rove has to take a big part of the blame for this defeat because she lost because of lack of republican support. Frankly, over the last 6 months it's shocking how many Republicans showed how badly they need to be retired next election cycle.

[JPG]

The night of the DE primary, when Rove was on Hannity, 99.9% of conservatives would have expected him to praise O'Donnell on a great win and his encouragement to all for her to defeat Coons in the general. Instead, what did we get from Tokyo? A girlish, hissy rant about how bad Christine was and how she couldn't win and boo-hoo-hoo. I saw it live and I was disgusted. Hannity was taken aback. Rove’s boy Castle got thumped and he was one unhappy RINO. Karl, thanks for showing me your true colors...now just GO AWAY.

[Padams]

I totally agree. Some of the posts remind me of the left ranting about “all powerful, evil, mastermind” Karl Rove during the Bush years. Does anyone, anywhere really care about Karl Rove’s opinion (outside his family and perhaps close friends)? Whenever I see or hear Rove, I think of The Wizard of Oz when the curtain is pulled back, and the tiny little man is revealed.

It’s very simple. Delaware voters had previously rejected COD, and they rejected her again.

[MichaelCorleone]

“...but apparently many here thinks he has that ability to convince people to vote for who he wants or doesn’t want.”

Do you really believe that Rove had minimal impact on the election? Are you aware of the childish temper tantrum he put on shortly after the primary? You think a person in his position saying what he said at the time he said it did not do O’Donnell any political damage?

Either you’re shilling for Rove-boy or you need to do some extra reading.

[truthfreedom]

Karl Rove’s friends and “foes” are giving a lot of credit to Karl Rove.

He doesn’t deserve the credit.

The biggest takeaway based on the exit poll numbers is that
Obama motivated young black women to vote for the Democrat candidate. Black women were 14% of the voters.

So, Dems were 44% instead of 47%. Reps were 30% instead of 29%.

For weeks, all across the country, we were talking about a
enthusiasm gap, where Republicans voted and Democrats didn’t. We did not see this enthusiasm gap in Delaware.
Democrats were down a little in DE. Republicans were up a little in DE.

It had very little to do with Karl Rove. Karl Rove would like you to think he was powerful in the DE race. He was not. Obama was. Obama got the black women to the polls. And that was the biggest difference.

Christine won among whites. But there are a lot of blacks in DE. Instead of not voting, they definitely did vote and they voted for Coons. 95% of nonwhite Dems voted for Coons.

The 3 most important things in the DE race.

1) Obama helped turnout.

2) The DE Gop did not help with GOTV

3) Castle did not endorse.

Rove and the neocons were not an important factor, no matter how much they say they were.

It’s possible that if 1) Obama stayed home 2) the DE Gop helped with GOTV and 3) Castle did endorse and helped Christine, that the neocon negativity could’ve swung the race to Coons if the race was close. But the race was not close, and the numbers of people who actually like Karl Rove and the neocons in DE is a lot smaller than Karl Rove and his buddies would like you to think.