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Subscribe to RSSChristine O’Donnell may have received enough national recognition to prompt a Saturday Night Live cold open, but two new polls show that the Delaware Republican appears unlikely to be the state's next U.S. senator.
A University of Delaware poll released Wednesday showed O’Donnell trailing Democrat Chris Coons by 19 points. And a Fairleigh-Dickinson University poll showed Coons up 53 percent to 36 percent.
For all the national buzz that the Palinesque perennial candidate has received, her supporters in her home state are comparatively lukewarm about her bid, according to the Delaware poll. Only one third of O’Donnell supporters said that they would be “very disappointed” if she lost the race, compared to two-thirds of Coons supporters who said the same about the Democratic candidate.
Tea Party darling O’Donnell stunned GOP rival Rep. Mike Castle, a moderate former governor with broad appeal and high name ID in the heavily Democratic state, in the state’s Sept. 14 Republican primary. The Fairleigh-Dickinson poll showed that Castle would be leading a hypothetical matchup with Coons by double digits.
Both polls also showed the Democrat in the race with a substantial advantage among independents, a phenomenon that could affect other Tea Party-affiliated candidates. Only 25 percent of independents nationwide have a positive opinion of the Tea Party movement, according to the latest NBC/WSJ poll. And more than half of independents said they have a negative impression of Sarah Palin, whose endorsement helped to vaunt the little-known O’Donnell to primary victory.
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Well, well, well......there is still hope for this country after all. Imbeciles like O'Donnell have no business being within 100 miles of Congress, let alone elected to it. We have enough nincompoops in Congress without putting the Queen of Stupidity in there, too.
I don't see where the Dems who are sittin' in those Congress seats now are any bright lightbulbs. Thanks to them and their Progressive ie Communist Leader you can see where we are. And if the the people of DE buy into the "Bearded Marxist" in Coons then they're fools. I'd much rather have a gal who has had to struggle than the idiot politician who got on the public free ticket and never got off!
If you look back you could see we are where we are because of the idiot from texas took us into an a war we could not win and a trillion dollars later and oh yea...4500 hundred dead americans as well.And the oil from there was going to pay for the war..how did that work out?trouble is the gop never saw a big business they didnt like of a war they would not fight.oh and that gal that had to struggle,maybe if the idiot would just get a real job and quit this little ponzi scheme of running for office and paying all her bills with the donations,and sadly realize shes an idiot and go to work for palin and possibly do some snl appearances.
Fatsean, sticks and stones my break our bones, but pork and beans gave you your screen name.
As a proud resident of Sussex County, Delaware, I think Christine O'Donnell is an embarrassment to citizens of this fine state. She is not qualified for the job. She is being used as a media darling by her equally loopy Tea Party cohorts. We need citizens to take governing our country seriously. Elections should not be media circuses, nor should they be popularity contests. Candidates should be elected based on qualifications. The United States Senate is not the place to learn a job, but to carry out a job.
We need citizens to take governing our country seriously You're kidding right? The Leftist Liberal Elitist Progressives ie Communists that are in charge of Congress now?? Then you go ahead and vote for the guy who's in favor of Stimulus, Health Care Reform and all of the other economy tanking policies of this administration. That "Bearded Marxist" Coons. How pathetic. I would think that the people in DE would be made of stronger stuff but obviously not!
ann you demonize healthcare reform, stimulus (which history shows in Europe, it worked for the Germans and French who have an amazing economy now) like all of America is against it. Obviously Delaware residents support those "evil" policies. Oh and I love your comparison to Marxism (which is not soviet communism) to Liberals to Progressives - which by the way are not alike - to what the American people have voted for; this is nothing close to communism. Shows your passionated ignorance very well try getting a little education about higher politics, and fashion a response that isn't from only one or two sources. (Fox and News Radio)
If this new poll is close to correct, it appears the people in the Land of Oz may go for the Wizard instead of the Wicked Witch of the West. There is no doubt in my mind who Dorothy and Toto are voting for!
Remember this headline two weeks before the election?
yea down by 11 pts with margain of error of 3 pts, not 19 - 20 pts with margain of error of 3 pts. She's doomed.
Remember an old former actor won Delaware, not once, but twice, during bad economic times.
And what a disaster he was.
yea no kidding dribble down economics was a failure, and every important economist believes so too; the republicans worship that failure of an alzheimers patient like he was Jesus.....Reagan was a mistake. If you wanna bash Jimmy Carter, bash him for losing to Reagan.
Is anyone really surprised by this? Honestly, no one took her serious except this "Tea Party Express". Not even establishment GOPs, to include Karl Rove (although he was forced to tone it down) took this O'Donnel seriously. The biggest key to understanding that is seeing how the RNCC and the RNC refused to give any money to her campaign.
Ahh foreshadowing for November, pit very far right conservatives against Dems and the losses don't look so bad for the Dems. Also it's important to note that "America is Angry with Government" really means that American Conservatives are angry with Republicans, if they are voting out their better, winnable, candidates. The GOP really screwed the pooch on the idea that America wants their country back. The same will be in 2012 for Obama. The Moderates are going to be too alienated from voting GOP that they'll approach more moderate Dems and GOP. I hope this is a lesson learned for the GOP
and if these left-wing progressive commies stay in power and you're down the road some years, waking up and donning your government uniform reporting to your government job with your mealy government supporting you (hell, they're in every aspect of our lives now) you're going to regret it. VOTE ALL DEMS OUT!!!!
Truly only far right nutjobs believe this outcome. I responded on another post of yours about an incorrect and very false comparison of this president or any other politician in America to Communists. It's nowhere near the same.
It just goes to show that once again an electable Republican can not get elected because they can't get through the primaries. This is something that has been going on for years. When will the intelligent Republicans regain control of their party?
Never more!!!!
The left wing medias hate campaign may or may not be working but I have this to say.If the media wants to be fair then remind everyone while she was playing a witch Obama was smoking crack and Clinton was showing his intern a good time southern style.what do you consider the lesser of the three.
I don't see how the people up there think that Chris Coons is such a prize. For cipes sake, he's just a part of the problem. Why in the world anyone would brag on the leftie libs out there is beyond me. They're the death of our country as witnessed by their control these past four years. The mentality of these lefties is crutially demented and the country is suffering because of the likes of the 'Coons' types.
Boy this news must have kicked you in the stomach pretty hard to stoop to this.
It looks like Rove and Krauthammer were right.
Tea Party: Ruining the Republican party one state at a time.
lol. I'm going to steal that.
Unfortunately 501(c) groups will probably end up deciding how this election will be played out. If they suspect that O'Donnell has no chance, they will pull away and go after markets that they think they can influence, it is much bigger than her. Yes, it is still local and that is how these groups will manipulate the bigger picture.
I should sit on here and make jokes all day about an insignificant race in delaware but its just that, insignificant
so by bye
ok, bye bye. We'll let you know how health care, economy, infrastructure, etc. all work out. The United States Senate is not an insignificant thing.
Last i heard every state has 2 senators ...insignificant....me thinks not!! Thank you Deleware...good job tea baggers
InTheMiddleTX - You are a moron. The media did not "destroy" this lady. She did it herself. 1. She just recently finished college -- why? fiscal irresponsibility -- unable to pay her tuition and was sued by the college. 2. Her linked in page says she went to OXford. THat's a lie. 3. Unable to hold a job, as she is unemployed. 4. Alledged used campaign funds to pay her rent.
She wants to rule based on the bible. Give me a break.
As for your comment that you don't have a horse in this race....yes, you can't vote for her or her opponent, but you DO have a horse in this race. The winner will be one of 100 US Senators. You really want this idiot making decisions in Congress? She doesn't understand what evolution is, but you think she can make decisions of science in Congress? Please. She will rule by the bible..you know, that collection of stories written years and years after the death of her saviour that are not meant to be taken literally, and certainly not meant to run a country by. Stay in Texas...perhaps we will let it leave the Union next time....
Isn’t Joe Biden from Delaware, Barney Frank from Massachusetts and name your poison from California? It is nice to know that a majority of the Nation’s 17% of wackos have chosen to live near one and other. A democrat winning Delaware is about as rare as Obama reminding us who was President before him. The current Administration’s disregard for the will of the people, you know the other 83% not living in liberal la la land, ultimately will be the demise of the current regime.
we can only hope. And Barney is another one. The guy was one of the instrumental keys in bringing down the entire economy along with Chris Dodd and people would vote him back into office? How can they be so damn dumb? This isn't a Dem vs Rep this November. It's SURVIVAL in getting the professional politician OUT!! It's getting a check and balance system back IN!
This country does NOT have a 17%/83% divide on politics, wth are you talking about Lion? This country is most moderate middle ran country in the world.
Yeah, get rid of those professionals! Long live the amateurs!
Err. . .
Seriously, though. This whole "Washington outsider" thing gets silly when we are so desperate for an outsider that we elect people who are unqualified.
I agree with you. Right now though, the ultra liberal 17% is dictating policy.
Lion, here is the problem I have. Obama pretty much is doing what he said he was going to do. The platform he is implementing is consistent with his campaign. I will not say whether I agree with it or not, but here is the point. The Bush Cheney Administration ran on a "Smaller Government, Lower Taxes" platform, and this is NOT what they did. We got somewhat lower taxes, but we did not get less government, we got more. Whether you like them or not, Obama and his fellow liberals pretty much govern the way they ran. Thus far the only Conservative to do that was Ronald Regan. Recent experience with Republicans is that they do NOT do what they say.
Uhh wait a minute Reagan didn't cut government...maybe in bureaucracies that were obsolete like lingering wastes from the New Deal, but he grew the military by leaps and bounds and cut taxes and put us in a recession ('83).
He signed tax raises for the last 6 years of his presidency to try to pay for the military he "beat the Soviets" with. Even Bush Sr. had to raise the taxes after he promised no new taxes. Clinton left thos tax rates the same until Bush Jr. came to the white house making that Surplus.
We invade Afghanistan and Iraq and cut taxes again to NOT pay for the two wars and WOW we are in a recession again. See the pattern?
But you guys don't need a history lesson.
Keith - You are right, Obama did pretty much keep most of his campaign promises, albeit a watered down version, but did a pretty decent job. The illusion of "America not wanting his 'Change'" is a facade put on by Fox News when infact the American people voted him in knowing exactly this is what they would get.
I don't thionk 17% is dictating ANY policy. The Senate and House watered down all the legislation to appease moderates and hopes of snagging a GOP. If the 17% indeed dictated policy, we would have a public option, full withdrawl from Iraq and NO funding for Afghanistan.
Regan promised to double the national debt?
The media destroyed her? The woman was a complete media wh*re for years - went on Bill Mahr's show over 20 times, I believe - as an adult woman.
Now Bill Mahr's the bad guy for playing clips of her nonsensical spewings on the show? He didn't make her say that stuff!
She's another Palin-esque politician with not much happening upstairs who then wants to blame the media for displaying her proving that she doesn't have much happening upstairs.
I ask one question? What is Mahr's motivation for releasing these clips?
IntheMiddle, he is doing it because he knows she is a whack job. He want's the rest of the nation to know. Seriously, how could you take this woman as anyone you would want in the Senate? Just looks at some to the remarks she has made, and some of her Religious beliefs. Dem, or Rep. You have to be crazy to want someone like that in the Senate.
Bill releases those clips to make her appear on his show again.
Hey I'm a conservative, but I couldn't vote for her!! She is really a light weight!! A jr. Sarah Palin! The guy leading is an idiot!!! Delaware has bad choices!!
That's funny as hell; :) What the heck is this country coming too! Senators that was former KKK, Warlords,Wizards,Migicians, Pagens, Voodoo Gods, Dammit now we have Witches who want to join the ranks of Politicans..hmmm!
I just can't understand why more people don't support an anti-sex, anti-gay, anti-choice, Catholic-Evangelical-Witch-Satanist who can't balance her checkbook and who believes that the universe is 6,000 years old, that primates evolve while you watch, that mice have human brains, and that masturbation causes blindness.
What's wrong with you people?
Beats a self-professed "marxist" who will vote for every damn Dem 'tank-the-country" policy that Odummo has comin' down the pike namely Cap & Tax next year. Yupper....you can count on the Coonsie Buddie voting YEA on that one. Of course then when you can't afford your energy call him...i'm sure the Dems will be happy to pay your tab.
Anni you should go on bill mahr's show you sound a lot like o'donnell.
Finally common sense is showing its face again,O'Donnell shouldn't be voted into office for anything maybe our citizens will see that these people don't have their best interests in mind,they only want to use people and their fear to further their extremist agenda...
Finally common sense is showing its face again,O'Donnell shouldn't be voted into office for anything maybe our citizens will see that these people don't have their best interests in mind,they only want to use people and their fear to further their extremist agenda...
Yeah she waged her own campaign to try and convince people that masturbation was adultery. LOL That's her own doing. But you're right, the media should never have given her the time of day to begin with.
LOL The media destroyed this lady ? They're not putting the words in her mouth though are they? How about you just turn off the TV then?
I ... DO... hope you're right. I'm not even a Democrat. I'm a well educated American ... sometimes leaning Democratic, sometimes Republican, mostly Independent. Most of what Obama is being blamed for is not his fault. I do believe that his stimulus was structured towards putting money into governments and public sector projects, and I believe that it would have worked better if there had been more emphasis on the small business sector, but I just don't get vilifying him for that. McCain would have had a stimulus and it would have been about the same size. He would have bailed GM out. There was no room for Obama to maneuverer there. We are not going to know how his health care program is going to work for a number of years. Anyone who thinks they know how any of this is going to tun out a few years from now is simply telling us that they don't actually know very much. I hate campaigns based on innuendo and smoke & mirrors, and so far, that is all that I see from the Republicans.
Most tea party members would never vote democrat, regardless of who the candidates are. (Akin to how, unfortunately, most african americans won't vote republican regardless of how much of a scumbag the democratic nominee is. Believe me, I live in Memphis, and know this first hand.)
Then there are an equally large number of true blood democrats and true blood republicans that also vote strongly along party lines.
Which leaves us with, unfortunately, a rather small 20% or so of Americans that actually make a choice based on a myriad of factors. These are the ones that decide most contests.
You don't need to run a candidate who can get the votes of the party faithful, you need to run a candidate who can get the votes of those whose opinion is actually capable of being swayed.
The tea party candidates that are being currently presented alienate these voters far more than they win them over, much to the delight of the democrats.
InTheMiddleTx is ignorant as are most people from Texas. Failing to pay taxes (IRS Not Left wing news organizations), Lying about a college degree, stealing campaign donations are something this woman did well after high school and as an adult. This woman is the typical GOP Gal these days. Short on brains but Big on Mouth!
Chuck
Ask your momma how ignorant I am.
Kick rocks trick azz f...t
Anyone surprised she's behind? She's literally been in hiding. No local campaign events in DE on her schedule. She herself said she was going to avoid the national media to address DE and local interests, and where was she spotted today? DC, in the senate offices. Stick a fork in her Sarah Mini-Me is history.