[mrsmith]

"Christine! Christine! Christine!"

No. the Delaware Republican Party was sick. That's why Castle lost an election he had the money and influence to breeze through.
He couldn't bring 'moderates' to the polls in the primary. Where were they? Voting in Coons' cakewalk?

O'Donnell was the candidate that would emerge from the wreckage- and it was a wreck: Castle WAS the Delaware Republican Party and he was gone.

No, to get a winning candidate there has to be a healthy system. You two are confusing the effect with the cause.

[CharlesWayneCT]

It was a republican primary. Independents didn’t vote in the republican primary. Castle couldn’t win the majority of the people willing to come out for the republican primary.

I don’t know why. I know that conservatives were highly motivated to vote for O’Donnell. I don’t know if the moderate/liberal republicans just assumed Castle would win, or if they didn’t really care, or what.

[wideawake]

He couldn't bring 'moderates' to the polls in the primary.

Moderates do not vote in primaries.

Moderates, by definition, are not "into politics", do not follow primary races closely, etc.

Primary races are for the most politically engaged voters, and those voters are rarely neutral or moderate.