>>> I wonder how much better Christine might have done had Castle and his people not tried to undermine her.
Zip. She lost on her own. I’ve never seen a campaign so totally disconnected from reality.
1) She wasn’t an unknown quantity. She had run statewide before, and lost then too. The general public knew who she was already and just weren’t impressed.
2) The voters in that state don’t take their cues from Karl Rove. It’s a liberal area, and Rove is the “enemy” to such. If anything Rove’s (accurate) skepticism would have endeared her to them just out of spite. That is, if she brought anything to the table the voters bought in to.
I see the RINObots are out today.