Delaware scares me; Chris Coons is not as "cute" as O'Donnell and the dumbed-down

[AlinPA]

electorate will be influenced by CNN, MSNBC and Fox 'news" to like her. They will play her as the valiant underdog and the dumbed-down voters will eat it up.

[Eric J in MN]

1. She's an anti-choice Republican in a Democratic state. NT

NT

[life_long_dem]

9. Plus, she believes in one of the Bagger's umpteenth Commandments.

Thou shalt not "stimulate" the economy to benefit the middle class.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. You're not giving the Delawareans (Delawarazoids? Delawareites?) much credit.

After all, didn't they elect and re-elect Joe Biden for like 30 years? Already Coons is ahead in the polls. "Cute" might help a little sometimes, but it didn't save the McCain-Palin ticket, even though Palin was the object of many a freeperite wet dream. No, I think the media will have way more fun with her phony academic credentials, dubious financial history and religious wackiness.

[BolivarianHero]

3. Relax...

As long as the Repuke isn't Castle, the Northern half of Delware will vote the way Biden tells them to and the Southern half will vote for whoever their fundie pastor tells them to.

Luckily, the North has more people.

[izquierdista]

11. Delaware is big enough to have halves?

Learn something every day.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

12. Probably divides up into about two Rhode Islands. nt

[BolivarianHero]

13. I'm not even American...

It's just stuff I read on DU and from the punditry and it squares with the state's voter breakdown based on my reading of election results.

[one_voice]

14. Yeah..

there's us (further north) left leaning, and there's "slower lower", I'll refrain from commenting on them. :-)

[DCBob]

4. dont worry, she's great Tina Fey-SNL material.

cant wait!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. A lot of DUers freaked out when McCain picked Palin.

That lasted for a few days before better senses prevailed.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

6. Castle is NOT endorsing her. That should sum it up. She's a lightweight.

And it's DE, the state that kept Biden in the Senate for almost four decades. Very blue state. O'Donnell is the closed primary product of a party that's lost control of itself. The Republican Party was sponsoring Robocalls on election day trashing her. This is not a race to lose a lot of sleep over.

[larwdem]

7. Delaware is not stupid

we have this one

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

8. Sounds like it is a good time for good-looking women to run for office

Maybe the dems should use that as a strategy... get good-looking dem women to run. I think it would work.

[one_voice]

10. Delaware gave you the VP...

don't worry about us. There may be stupids folks here, but not enough to elect this nitwit. Coons will win. Castle was a threat to Coons because he's moderate. Some Dems/Indies could get behind him and turn Delaware red, but no way will they get behind O'Donnell. I know Republicans that are having shit fits over this. No way will they even hold their nose and vote for her.

[dkf]

15. She actually doesn't sound very loony unless you get all the YouTube stuff.

Attacking a woman has to be done very carefully too. It creates sympathy for a "victim".

What scares me is she has that same thing as Palin where no matter how much you make fun of her she just keeps plugging along.

[saltpoint]

16. The media deserve blame in a lot of cases, agree, but

I don't think even FOX and the others can make Christine O'Donnell palatable to a majority of voters in Delaware.

I think we're just a handful of weeks before we get Senator-Elect Coons.

[Justitia]

17. How does she get away w/flat out LYING about her education & credentials???

I mean, this is not "pad your resume" action, she freaking claimed to:

- have a college degree (she only rec'd one like last week)

- have gone to both Princeton AND Oxford (!!)

How the hell does she get away with making shit like that up???

That's not even touching (no touching!) all the other batshit crazy stuff.

[NNN0LHI]

18. Joe Biden beat her three straight times when she was "younger" and "cuter"

I am confident the Delaware Dems know how to handle this election.

Don

[doc03]

19. If you listened to Tweety today he has her damn near in office

already. The Democrats are whistling past the graveyard it says in the corner.