Christine O'Donnell upsets Mike Castle in Delaware Senate primary

[kpete]

Source: Washington Post

Posted at 9:10 PM ET, 09/14/2010
Christine O'Donnell upsets Mike Castle in Delaware Senate primary

Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary tonight, handing the tea party movement a major victory and giving Democrats an unexpected chance to hold the First State seat.

O'Donnell, who is making her third run for the Senate in as many elections, relied heavily on national surrogates -- from the Tea Party Express to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- to fuel a shoestring campaign against the iconic Castle who had held elected office in the state for more than four decades.

The O'Donnell victory, which was considered a political impossibility as recently as a month ago, is a major boost for Democratic hopes of holding the seat once held by Vice President Joe Biden. New Castle County Executive Chris Coons was unchallenged for the Democratic Senate nomination.

While the Delaware race was the marquee contest of the night, it was far from the only one on the ledger as seven states and the District of Columbia voted in the final major primaries of the 2010 election.

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/christine-odonnell-upsets-mike.html

[babylonsister]

1. And the gop mourns; maybe we should, too, for the direction

this just took. :(

[Avalux]

2. Excellent news.

She will not win against Chris Coons. :D

[glinda]

3. Do not trust them. They have money and have no conscience.

[still_one]

25. That is what they said about Cloakley(sic), she couldn't lose in Mass /nt

[MattyGroves]

44. And by all accounts she ran a piss poor campaign and got what she put in....nada

That said, if Coons can't rally independents/moderates to his side then the Republican nut-job will be in the Senate next year.

[still_one]

47. I agree /nt

[Cognitive_Resonance]

4. The GOP got what it deserved. It Tea Bagged itself. nt

[nyy1998]

19. +1

[BadGimp]

5. this is GREAT news

[bushisanidiot]

6. Smell that? That's the smell of the republicon establishment shitting their pants.

hahahaha!!

What a gift for the democrats!!

[CTLawGuy]

7. woo woo!

:toast: :toast: :toast:

[Cleita]

8. Oh! The night of the Iwanna! Or, the Republican

establishment of "I wanna be back in power" seems to have hit a pothole. It looks like their toxic anti-Democratic, anti-Obama posturings and propaganda have backfired on them. I feel like doing a little grave dancing. Now if our Dems don't take this opportunity and run with it, they belong in the same graveyard with those Republicans who are retiring unexpectedly.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. delete - wrong place

[d_b]

10. oh thank god

what are our chances now?

[customerserviceguy]

26. Our chances in DE

are at least as good as Mike Castle's were a month ago. Only problem is, there is about a month and a half to go before the election.

Be careful of what you wish for...

[Arrowhead2k1]

11. Wow, the Republicans are dumber than I thought. Tea partier in Delaware? Really!?

Good news for us though! :rofl:

[onehandle]

24. Tea partier in Mass? Really? Ted Kennedy's seat?

How'd that work out?

[proud2BlibKansan]

27. +1

I'm certainly not cheering.

[Magleetis]

12. Any victory for the teabaggers

is a defeat for America. I don't see how this could be good news.

[onenote]

15. its good news if in the general she goes down to defeat

[Magleetis]

17. I understand that

It's the "if" word that worries me.

[NeoConsSuck]

37. I agree with you.

Any teabagger victory forces the Republican party to move further to the right to recapture the tea baggers vote. As they move further to the right, the Dems will also move further to the right.

What is there to celebrate? That the country is going to move further to the right??

[Blue_Tires]

48. +1000

[harun]

41. Bad for GOP = Good for America.

If Castle ran against the Dem he would likely win. Running against a bagger gives the Dem a better chance where we had almost no chance. If the bagger wins, so what? They have the same core agenda as the GOP, they are just making the regular GOP'rs look a little less crazy with how flippin nuts they are.

[Bucky]

49. I'm with you. Tactically it may help us Dems. But at some point those loons will get into power.

There's a world of difference between the party that nominated Poppy and the party that nominated Dubya. President McCain would have been bad for America. President Palin would have been bad for Earth.

[Hulk]

13. Woot!!...WTG! This proves repukkkes need a brain....poor idiots.

I agree with the posters above however, that these scum sucking bottom feeders have no conscience, and they will stoop to any depth to get what they want. This really is a threat to our nation's stability. Bad enough the repukkkes show the world just how f*cked up this country is...but now we have the "compound-repukkkes....aka teabaggers" that are embarrassing the whole country by actually having a voice that can be heard.

This is some scary shit. I'm hoping Chris Coons can beat her by LARGE double digits to show the rest of the world WE really aren't this f*cking insane.

[lonestarnot]

14. Are there enough nutters in Deleware to overcome us?

[The Hitman]

16. GOP will not support her!

ohhhh man! Congrats to Senator Coons.

[customerserviceguy]

29. That's what they've been saying

Repukes in DE have a month and a half to get over it, and will eventually support her, if only grudgingly.

[The Hitman]

34. Doubtful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct3Mjx7Suy4

[lapfog_1]

39. One telling graphic in that report...

Look at the total number of votes cast in this primary when it was "called".

60,000 votes. That's it. 30,000 idiots in the state of Delaware voted for this Palin wannabe.

That won't translate to a general election, even in an off year. The Tea Party alone cannot win elections. Centrists and even the more sane of the repukes will not bring themselves to vote for this moron. They might not vote for a Democrat, but they won't vote for her either.

I think this is good news for Dems come November. If we can motivate even a small "get out the vote".

Fear is a great motivator. Fear of the country being run by these morons from the Tea Party will get even the most disaffected liberal / progressive off their ass and to the voting booth. Yeah, be nice to have some great progressive legislative battles won and a President who would have fulfilled our dreams of "Change"... but that wasn't ever to be. Fear will be a good enough substitute. Fear of the Tea Party.

[ClarkUSA]

18. Is she a Sarah Palin clone? She's talking now and the similarities are striking.

Whew. :puke:

[MattyGroves]

45. She definitely follows the Sarah Palin playbook of hypocrisy

She and her followers make baseless accusations of the married Castle being a homosexual and when his campaign objects she tells him to "put his man pants on".

Meanwhile, the opposition makes a point of her well documented less than stellar financial situation, her living off campaign funds and her thin resume and she has the nerve to bitch about "character assassination" and the "politics of personal destruction.".

Yep, another standard bearer of the the "honesty and integrity" that Beck and Palin promise to bring back to Washington.

[Roland99]

20. What do we know of Chris Coons?

[rpannier]

22. He had the good sense to run for the office

Biden is probably at home crying himself to sleep for the stupid decision he made (The kid, not the dad)
Had he chosen to run, he'd have been the new senator from Delaware

[jberryhill]

36. Okay...

He took on a seriously tough job after New Castle County Council had turned into a circus of personal, financial and political corruption that would have made Caligula blush.

The first question is "how much do you know about Delaware?". As a native, I've come to expect that, other than a joke line in Wayne's World, the answer is not much.

You might think "a county council position to US Senate?" but that's the same step Joe Biden made. We only have three counties, and the other two counties are thinly populated.

In Delaware, coming out of NCC Council without crap on your shoes is a big f'n deal.

[Roland99]

40. But is he more DLC or more of a true liberal Democrat?

[jberryhill]

42. Again, this is Delaware

Politics is very personal here. We kept Castle in the House the entire time we kept Biden in the Senate.

Voters in Delaware do not vote straight party anything.

What Chris Coon is - is not Christine O'Donnell, whom Delaware voters have rejected repeatedly in general elections.

[onehandle]

21. Jesus. Some of these will make it to office. The Bachmann level of crazy will double in Congress. nt

[customerserviceguy]

30. You can be sure of it

But you're wrong, it will at least triple. Utah will certainly elect a tea partier, Kentucky is very, very likely to, as is Alaska, and I don't think Harry's got things all wrapped up in Nevada just yet.

[underpants]

23. I caught Rush talking about this today

The "Buckley rule" William F. Buckley said that the most electable conservative is the one who must (insert 30 seconds of qualifications and distraction) is the one who most be ...uh... voted for ....because...you see....


Rush is spinning with in his own audience on this. It was funny to listen to as he could not figure out who he was supposed to hope for. He mentionedO'Doneessel would probably win by 20 points while O'Donell would lose by 20 points.... at this point he questioned the polls and who conducted them.

Congrats C O'D Thanks for the easy win.

[woodsprite]

28. We can't take this for granted. We gotta work to make sure Coons wins. n/t

[Carnage251]

31. Democrat Hold

[Ter]

32. What is with the far-right women being so attractive lately?

Not all of them, but why must so many of them be pretty? :(

[onehandle]

33. It's the Fox News formula.

Pretty women delivering the kind of hate loved by the aging Republican male.

Sex sells.

[dogfacedboy]

35. Because Bubba MacNascar will vote for them "Cause she's HAWT!"

[harun]

38. When you are trying to sell one of the WORSE ideologies in the history

of man, it better have damn good marketing and come in a pretty package.

[activa8tr]

43. She looks kind of pretty until she opens her mouth. Then she

turns into a monster.

[Taverner]

52. Yep - pure petulant psychopath there

[MattyGroves]

46. The pretty only lasts until they open their mouths

at that point, anyone who isn't a FReeper (or Pat Buchanan) sees the Gorgon inside and runs the other way.

Hell, when Karl Rove says the Republicans blew their chance to capture the Senate based on the Delaware primary you know there's a problem with the candidate.

[Bucky]

50. you're right

smokin' :eyes:

[Taverner]

51. Be very careful what you wish for....

Angle...O'Donnell..whichever loony toon teabag fuck that wins...

There is always the chance that they will WIN and we'll have to put with O'Donnell's hate filled, delusional shit

She's stupid and evil...

[Green_Lantern]

53. This may not be good news...

For one thing these primary wins give these people credibility and will make the GOP become even crazier. Secondly in every election following a Presidential election the opposition party typically fare well. So it's pretty likely it'll benefit the GOP regardless of who it is.

I don't think this is due to the "voters being conservative", the tea party will only win seats because of the phenoma I mentioned above.