O'Donnell is a long shot, unfortunately. It's 46 days to the November election and she's double digits behind Coons, a one-time self avowed Marxist. (Reid called him "my pet ... my favorite candidate.") It's going to be an uphill fight to bag the Senate seat in a blue state like Delaware.
This "tea party" candidate has a million in contributions and a lot of national attention and support. Should be fun to watch.
It's going to be an uphill fight to bag the Senate seat in a blue state like Delaware.
They both have baggage.
She raised $1M in one day, got another $42K from NRSC and will get almost that from RNC. That is a fundraising punch right to the Dems' chin. And because she's big with Limbaugh and Vannity, she'll get lots of free air time and her opponent will get thoroughly based. Free publicity like that is worth millions, just as when libmedia does it for the Dims.
And when unemployment is high, people don't like to see a vast expansion of gooberment because they wonder who is going to pay for it all. And they may resent seeing all the hordes of gooberment workers making twice as much as everyone else while seeming to do very little.
The indy voter is volatile and many of these Blue states are dominated by indy voters. Things like this can flip a state hard, like with Brown in MA. And we just passed the 20th month straight of people paying down their credit cards. You think they want anything with the faintest whiff of big-spending around them? And this Coons has trouble with his county record, it's supposedly in poor shape with debt and his county covers 2/3 of the state.
She could win this thing even with her baggage and even in a Blue state.
Looks like she's well on her way to one and a half mill from her website.
Thanks for the optimistic perspectives, TC. We're about to see the magnitude of the November earthquake. I can hear RNC's teeth grinding clear down to Houston.
It's a perfect storm, I think. Even the Dims who still have jobs, even the government employees, are starting to wonder in an economy like this just who the hell is going to pay for ObongoCare and all the rest.
Even if they voted for Obongo and these policies, they certainly never actually intended to pay for it themselves. Oh, hell no.
The result will be heavily depressed Dim turnout even in strongholds or even Dims voting GOP. Even the Stupid Party is competent enough to remind the public with a few words like ObongoCare, Porkulous, Cash For Clunkers, $13 Trillion, etc.
There are indications that this year could be a far bigger rout of Dims than even 1994. The pundits are digging out data to compare it to the massive Dim rout of 1924. Not a once-in-a-generation election. A once-in-a-lifetime election.
If that is what Coons is all about (and of course he is or he wouldn't be the 'pet' of Harry Reid), then who really wants more of it? It's not going to be as much about who O'Donnell is as it is about who and what Coons represents.
I wouldn't be surprised if he's thinking this was the wrong year to run for Senate. Those exit polls in DE must have been stark.