Not surprised. COD is proof you can be on the right side of the issues, and still be an extremely poor candidate. It’s a shame. Coons was ripe for defeat. At least Castle is gone.
It is amazing that all this same info wasn’t presented two years ago when she ran for the other DE Senate seat. This attack has simply been a smear campaign to tear down an otherwise fine candidate. She beat Castle handily in the primary, but is crowned a disastrous candidate. The left, and some on our side, tried to do the same to Rubio, Angle, Fiorini and others.
She has gone campaigned since the primary without party unity, without significant resource from the national party and with media big wigs like Rove cutting her out at the knee before she even had a chance to run. She also has made a couple mistakes along the way that didn’t help.
COD would have had a shot in this seat in the blue state if she did a better job staying on message and had a unified party behind her. I think the odds are pretty bad now, but it didn’t have to be this way, and I am not about to throw good people under the bus for running on conservative platform against the odds.