That stupid add where she said, “I’m not a witch”... What kind of response was that... IMO, wimpy, feel good, please like me response. Not what resonates with people who know what needs to be done in Washington.
No. She lost because of media attacks, Karl Rove attacks, and Delaware State Republican Party attacks.
The media managed to persuade a lot of voters that “even Republicans” thought she was a kook. Those Republicans in Name Only all being left-wingers and pork-grubbing, professional hacks.
I don’t no how many times it needs to be said that members of the party are welcome to take sides during the primary, but that when the primary is over they should either fall behind the candidate or shut up. They smashed this rule to pieces.
Most blame Karl Rove. If he can control elections certainly he is the most powerful politician in the country. I don’t think for a minute I would have any use for his opinion on who I vote for, but apparently many here thinks he has that ability to convince people to vote for who he wants or doesn’t want.
If you are going to take the party back from the establishment hacks, then by definition you are going to run less experienced people against wizened old veterans. Which means you will win some and you will lose some; its the nature of it.
And you are going to find your less-experienced candidate under attack by the party elite; thats guaranteed, since the elite are exactly the people you are trying to unseat.
I consider Delaware to be a win, in that we got rid of Castle. That was job one. ODonnell will live to fight another day. I’m not going to buy in on the elite’s spin about how running against Castle was a mistake; getting rid of guys like him (and exposing guys like Rove) is a large part of what we have to do to take this party back... from guys like Castle and Rove.
just be glad she lost, she served her purpose and that was to not allow another Repub like Castle to join Collins and Snowe on the east coast Rockerfeller wing.
That said she would of been a disaster on the national level, for the umteempth time we need good candiadates that further conservatism like Rubio not ones like O’Donnell that cannot further intelligent conservatism.
O’Donnell lost because O’bummer and his minions brought in people from out of state to vote Democrat, under the cover of fraudulent voter registrations by ACORN and others. There’s no WAY Delaware gained that many Dems in a year.
What a remarkably stupid article.
O’Donnell lost the overall race by 16%.
The CNN Exit poll did find that 16% of Republicans voted for Coons.
HOWEVER, only 30% of those voting were Republicans;
Therefore, if EVERY Republican had voted for O’Donnell, she would have still lost by 11%.
When someone loses a race by 16%, and they had plenty of campaign cash, the reason they lost is - they couldn’t win.
I’d like to hear what the people who were here for Christine prior to the election have to say about this.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2620231/posts
this thread was posted the day after the election and is a long thread about why Christine lost, and includes many posts from people who were paying attention prior to the election.
It’s certainly not all about Rove and the neocons.
But Demonrat insiders still think that having 'Mickey Mouse' vote in 17 precincts is a tough sell. But they would have pulled out that stop if needed. We need to train and vet candidates early - figure out who can win. Taking over some of the media would also help.
“Therefore, Christine O’Donnell’s presence on the November 2 ballot clearly did not drive Democrats to vote.”
Well if that is true, then it is also true that Coons “clearly did not drive Democrats to vote”, because they voted in numbers below their number of registered voters. And, in the first place, wouldn’t it have been Coons JOB to “drive Democrats to vote”; not O’Donnells???
This is an article that tries to build a mountain out of a mole hill.
The REDSTATE blogger wants to convince us that its all D’Donnells fault because only 82% of GOPers, not 100%, voted for O’Donnell, in a state where her Liberal RINO primary opponent - Castle - has never been elected because of the GOP vote, but because he usually got so many Liberal Dim votes; in a state where they dominate among the 47% registered as Dims and the nearly 30% registered as independents.
“Therefore, the exit poll data shows that Republican defections to vote for the Democrat Coons were responsible for the Republican Party losing the US Senate seat from Delaware.”
This is bogus. For it to be true 100% of the GOPers would have, in an alternate universe, voted for Castle. But, the primary results, and the general preferences, indicate that Castle would have gotten less GOP votes than O’Donnell got, in the general election, with more than “18%” of GOPers staying home, instead of voting for the “other Liberal” - Castle.
All these arguments are a waste of time.
Coons won in an overwhelmingly Liberal-Left state because to the majority of voters he was neither the antithesis of their majority sentiments, nor was he the pretend RINO Liberal, Castle. To the majority (delusional Liberal majority) Coons was the “real deal” - all the way through the campaign.
The GOP did not loose because of O’Donnell. They lost because it was never theirs to win, in Delaware.
Once anybody with any ties to the GOP started attacking Christine, it was all over for her. The GOP attacking the GOP helps the Democrats, ALWAYS, and it creates a ton of political damage towards the entire GOP, too!
A welfare check is the best way way to motovate a Democrat. That or let them believe they are stealing something.