Subject: Re: Ambinder: Will Republicans Nominate an Unelectable Candidate in Delaware?
From: "Alexander Snyder-Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Biden Beau" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:46:10 -0500

to put it politely: the Rs in DE are shitting themselves. apparently the
whole (political) state is obsessed today.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Eric Schwerin <[email-masked]
> wrote:

> Will Republicans Nominate an Unelectable Candidate in Delaware?<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/09/will-republicans-nominate-an-unelectable-candidate-in-delaware/62862/>
> POLITICS <http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/> SEP 13 2010, 11:24 AM ET Comments
> (13)<http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/09/will-republicans-nominate-an-unelectable-candidate-in-delaware/62862/#disqus_thread>
> Tomorrow marks the end of a particularly brutal primary season for Senate
> Republicans, and another upset is in the making: a Public Policy Poll
> released this weekend shows insurgent Christine O'Donnell tied within the
> margin of error with party-backed Rep. Mike Castle. O'Donnell was recently
> endorsed by Sarah Palin, who made an issue out of "establishment attacks" on
> O'Donnell.
>
> Many of those attacks, though, are in the form of panicky warnings from the
> Professional Right, quite apart from the party, which views O'Donnell as a
> disaster of a candidate, someone who could prevent Republicans from picking
> up a Senate seat that would have easily, otherwise, been theirs. Matt Lewis,
> Patrick Ruffini, John McCormack, and others have ruminated to this effect.
> The state Republican Party chairman said that O'Donnell was unworthy of
> being elected <http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jjVT7jSr0fJKHujjr5KMJ9wzFPuwD9I3A2N80>"dog
> catcher." The Weekly Standard's John McCormack posted <http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/citing-mental-anguish-christine-odonnell-sought-69-million-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-again>a
> tough investigative piece that calls O'Donnell's motives into question.
>
> Predictably, the harsher Republicans have resisted O'Donnell, the more
> excited the Tea Party Express has become about her candidacy. This is not
> simply a case of insurgents versus the party, however: the NRA endorsed
> O'Donnell too, and many of her opponents have supported plenty of the
> insurgent candidates who defeated NRSC-hand-picked candidates in other
> Senate races. (I don't think a single one of O'Donnell's professional GOP
> critics, aside from the NRSC, would oppose Ovide Lamontagne winning in New
> Hampshire on Tuesday.)
>
> Mike Castle can still win this primary, because about 30,000 people are
> going to vote. But the Tea Party Express, and Sarah Palin's robo-calls, have
> turned out plenty more than 30,000 voters before.
>
> If O'Donnell wins, Democrats believe that, with the right injection of
> money and enough targeted GOTV, Chris Coons, the Democrat who ran instead of
> Attorney General Beau Biden, can win the seat.
>
>
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