Appreciate your link, that is media trying to use her as a means to get Toomey off message- which, naturally, he didn’t fall for. She didn’t rate a mention in this review and nothing in it indicates she had a negative impact on Toomey. http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20101104_How_Pat_Toomey_outpaced_Joe_Sestak_-_and_his_own_campaign_s_expectations.html
In keeping with my radical ‘politics is local’ thesis... I add that Colorado’s losses were led by Party Chairman Dick Wadham- infamous for “the year’s worst campaign” in George Allen’s loss in 2006 (I think he has to report to local police if he enters Virginia LOL!). In 2008, he managed Bob Schafer’s doomed Senate run in Colorado, while also serving as the state’s GOP party chair. The state went to Obama. (Wadhams is a longtime friend of Karl Rove.)
The state Party mess in Alaska is self-evident.
Haven’t seen any coherent explanation of Nevada, that may be a better example of a poor candidate- but , even if so, I’d ask ‘how and why did that candidate get there’?
Wadhams is an idiot, and I don’t know how he ever gets jobs after the disaster in Virginia.