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61% is a win in my book.

Irrelevant.

There are Democrats who won State legislature races today won by 90% over an actual opponent.

An incumbent Congressman who has been in office for decades who gets only 61% of the vote against a Democrat spending only $26,000 is dead meat. In 2008 he should have immediately started planning his successor, and the DEGOP should have demanded it.

When your opponent spends only $26,000 for a US House seat and you get only 61% of the vote, you need to take a hint and go into retirement.

Running for Joe Biden's seat while Obama was saying his agenda was at stake, in a State with 57% approval for Obama, Mike Castle would have joined Jan Ting in the high 20's percentage-wise.

“An incumbent Congressman who has been in office for decades who gets only 61% of the vote against a Democrat”

IN a district that voted for Obama by a large margin, that’s impressive, since many Democrats vote straight ticket.

This was a seat that would be held by (a) a RINO or (b) a liberal Democrat. Not enough conservative voters to make it viable for a conservative Republican unfortunately.