Will Sarah Palin go to Delaware?
Posted on 10/08/2010 3:29:32 PM PDT by mandaladon
National Democrats are sending in some serious firepower against Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell in Delaware's Senate contest.
Both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will headline a joint campaign appearance and fundraiser for Democratic nominee Chris Coons next week. It's the first joint campaign appearance the two have made for a Democratic candidate so far this election cycle.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/08/obama-biden-to-go-to-dela_n_756449.html
President Barack Obama will be making a campaign trek to Delaware next Friday even as the Senate race in that state seems more like a political freak show than an actual, tight election contest.
Recent polls have put the race firmly in the hands of Democratic candidate Chris Coons, in large part because Christine O’Donnell’s defining campaign functions to date have been efforts to convince voters she’s not a witch. So why then would the president, who will be joined by Delaware native, Vice President Joe Biden, use his precious time and capital on a state where little of either are needed.
The explanations run the gamut. One operative said that the White House wants to “shut the door” on the contest, while firming up a Senate ally in Coons. That same operative made the case that there would be good spill-over news coverage in neighboring Pennsylvania, where Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn) is hoping to make inroads in his own Senate race.
The more compelling explanation, however, came from a party strategist, who said that the macro-elements of Obama visit are too tempting to ignore.
“Elevating O’Donnell as the face of the Tea Party isn’t a bad thing,” said the strategist. “Think about the tightening [in the polls] after she got nominated. The money that started rolling in. She’s Sarah Palin. She causes people to pause and say, ‘Whoa, this is who the Tea Party is. Do we really want to hand them the keys to the kingdom’.”
This echoes the pitch that former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe made at a briefing to reporters at the DNC on Thursday, when he argued that the Tea Party wins in individual races where having impacts across state lines. The Huffington Post, on Friday, was told reliably that even the Sestak campaign has seen improved internal polling numbers since O’Donnell won the nomination. But one prominent Democrat expressed a bit of hesitancy with the idea that elevating O’Donnell would raise the party’s fortunes. “If you end up making women the object of ridicule it could end up a big mistake.”
Well at least the title of this article is a bit better than the one AP had (and a FR thread on same) last night.
Obama To Campaign For Coons In Delaware
AP via WJZ ^ | Thursday, October 7, 2010
Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:36:01 PM by kristinn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2603597/posts
That needed a keyboard alert. Whole family here laughed out loud on that one. Thanks. I’d missed the article headline.
Abbott & Costello to the rescue!
Its the Mutt and Plugs show.
Will Sarah Palin go to Delaware?
Isn’t coons name racist?
ROFL!
Sickening, isn’t it? Plus, his aides are leaving him in droves, and his wife hasn’t been seen in public with him in how long now?
Yes Coons as a name is racist.It should immediately be changed.
“Obama for Coons” just doesn’t quite cut the political correctness standard of the Liberal Fascist party.
It should be changed to Cones.That would be much better.
And there would be some truth to it too.
Dems for Biden - 2012!
Christine is potentially quite huge. The D’s know this.
Who do the socons want talking about abortion?
The Ds know this right away even though the Rs aren’t paying attention.
Their first “joint” appearance. Drugs are bad m’k.
Obama and Biden are going to smoke a joint together.
It makes no sense for Obama to campaign there and ignore other supposedly “closer” races.
Either one of two things: Obama Bin Biden are scared that O’Donnell is doing well (she also represents the power of Palin), or they think Coons is going to win and want to take credit for his win.
Dick Morris did say the polls on this race are old, and chances are improving for O’Donnell. She has been getting superstar attention on TV. My guess: Coons is in trouble.
Yet another racist appeal by the most divisive president in US history. Anyone even vaguely familiar with negro culture knows that the barbershop and beauty parlor are where much of their social networking is done. THis is a very dangerous man.
Ladies & Gentlemen, voters of the state of Delaware: Chris coons is an avowed communist. A vote for Coons is a vote to destroy America!!! Wake up folks in Delaware!! Joe Biden is braindead!!! Barack Hussein Obama is an America hater from head to to toe!!! Vote for Christine O’Donnell on Election Day, November 2, 2010!!!
dumb and dumber are making an appearance?
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