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Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell said Thursday that the National Republican Senatorial Committee is “considering” contributing money to her race -- after she requested its support yesterday -- but that she believes she can win even without the support of the GOP organization.
“I asked them to help us,” said O’Donnell, who met with NRSC Chairman Sen. John Cornyn yesterday. “But I'm confident that even if they don't, we are building coalitions and a strong grassroots campaign and rising in the polls and doing what we need to do to win.”
“The more people working to win towards victory on November 2nd, the better,” she told NBC News. “But if they don’t, I'm still confident that we can win.”
As First Read pointed out this morning, races like O’Donnell’s (and the difficult-to-poll Alaska Senate contest) are receiving enormous national attention because of their respective spoof-able moments and linkage to the Palin family. But it’s worth pointing out that there are some much closer statewide races that are receiving little national press.
According to poll averages computed by RealClearPolitics, O’Donnell is down by 16 points against Democrat Chris Coons.
That margin is equal to the COMBINED total poll differentials in three close Senate races (Colorado – 4.4 points, Washington – 3.3 points, and Illinois – 1.2 points) plus two tight gubernatorial contests (Florida – 2.9 points and Ohio – 4.2 points).
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Help me I'm melting, meelting, meeelt......
After her humiliating defeat, she will undoubtedly blame the Godless Liberals for her debacles. Of this I say;
"You're welcome."
blame liberals? Nah, She'll blame the Wiccan Goddess from which all true blessings flow! (lol)
blame someone for a loss? no, she'll claim she won and add it to her resume.
rrobeson, I posted my same comment on CNN today, and got the same response as you just gave. I'm KingDave2 over there, but MSNBC and Newsvine is much better. Because here they have a spell-check button that I desperately need! (lol)
I am a Conservative/Libertarian/Independent leaning person and I find this Woman's presence offensive. She is simply an attention seeking narcissist who keeps running and running for an office, mostly because she can find enough other types to work on her campaigns or make contributions.
In the absence of our current turmoils she, and Palin for that matter, would be rightfully ignored and have no sway on anything. I hope in a post-Obama World we can return to at least a semblance of reality and these opportunists (I include Pelosi, Ried, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Matthews, Olbermann and a lot of other haranguers and shills in this class) can return to their richly deserved obscurity!
Gee, UofM Fan, do you like anybody?
Yeah, those who are honest, common-sense and not opportunists. Oh wait, you're probably right - I might have just eliminated about 98% of the Human Race with those requirements. Still trying to find that elusive 2%. I know they are out there somewhere. :-)
UofM Fan:
Great answer; I like your sense of humor, especially since that commodity is really rare on this site. Have a good day!
I'm a fan of Diogenes.
"She's a witch!"
"Run away!!! Run away!!!"
No seriously, Monty Python jokes aside, I find it fascinating that these Tea Party candidates can't stand the "status quo" - then when they win primaries, want help from... the status quo.
Pass the freaking popcorn. Want to know who the "Blue Dogs" of the Republican caucus will be? Look no further than the "Tea Party candidate" label. Sure to give fits to people like Boehner and McConnell.
This bimbo gives new meaning to the concept of air head.
Charlie! You are giving a bad name to Bimbos and Airheads!
/me mops up another pool of whiny liberal gunk
No kidding Forrest!
Maybe Christine the teenage witch can cast a spell using some 'eye of the newt' to get Cornyn to cough up some cash! lol
This broad is going to be a HOOT come Halloween!
She announced this morning that she would finally make herself available to the voters.
She will hold a meet and greet in every county (all 3 of them).
I guess that hiding from the electorate is not working. I bet you that she doesn't answer direct questions, either.
The poor girl got the Bozo gene from her father's side.
Dennis - Or maybe she'll only go to the 2 out of 3 (Kent and Sussex) where she erroneously claims to have beaten Joe Biden in her last run?
I wish I had the Christine O'Donnell Halloween witch costume market cornered. I could retire.
Randy from Maine.
As we have seen countless times in American politics Judge Judy Sheindlin was right: "Beauty fades, but dumb is forever."
"I asked them to help us," said O'Donnell
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Who else, the coven?
What ever happened to Sharon Angle?
This is really the big political news of the day, or just that red meat gets the most responses and there is no meat redder than this woman in Delaware who is going to lose by double digits?
Consider the water chummed...
uuuhmm she is 2 points ahead of REED
Janet - it depends on what stacked poll you look at.
According to poll averages computed by RealClearPolitics, O'Donnell is down by 16 points...
Speaking of Real Clear Politics;
How about the fact that according to the same site the senate is currently listed as 50-50 with no "toss-ups"?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/2010_elections_senate_map_no_toss_ups_race_changes.html
Now that is spooky and scary...
Now you know why I personally don't put much stock in polls.
I still can't believe that Delaware Repugs elected this clown. It's not only embarrassing to the GOP, but to the whole Country. No wonder our Congress is in such a mess.
You said it Tom!
We are all witnessing the Tea Party unravel and by the time the election gets here there probably won't be much more than a lint ball left!
Elected? Not quite...nominated...
They are thankfully, not one and the same...
Remember, she only got 30,000 votes. It is relatively easy to find that many morons in this country, especially if you go looking for them inside the Tea Party. After all, these are the people who would trust the Medical Insurance Industries, Big Oil and Wall Street banks over the government elected by the majority of the people.
"No wonder our Congress is in such a mess."...No California Tommy it's such a mess because there's too damn many Democraps in it. But we are going to change that in November when we vote most of them out!!!!!!!!!!
VOTE CONSERVATIVE in November and rid the congress of the Tax and Spend liberals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Let's take our country back::::::::
CAL usa..she got 30,000 votes ..that was three thousand more than her oponent got...enough for a win...GO CHRISTINE..we need you in Washington!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, vote out the tax and spend liberals and vote in the don't tax and still spend conservatives!!
" But I'm confident that even if they don't, we are building coalitions and a strong grassroots campaign and rising in the polls and doing what we need to do to win."
This little girl really IS a twitt and a dreamer, isn't she??
Did you check for the wind-up key that is firmly lodged in her back?
Pietro - I can tell you never played with dolls! She's more like the kind where you used to pull a little ring on a string in the back to make them talk. Of course, the problem was, they were only programmed to say the same five phrases over and over.....
Chatty Cathy had a demonic laugh too. I think you're on to something.
I have to start watching Saturday Night Live more. Have I missed any skits of O'Donnell? If O'Donnell says she isn't a witch then in the AD why did she wear black and have a dark background. I mean who said yea that looks great you look like all of us and not a witch. All she needed was the hat and broom and ready for Halloween.
Nice pearls though.
Surely the GOP will support her with big bucks! They did it for Palin, why not another candidate? They seem to like dressing up their Barbies!
http://smd12364.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/06/5245288-the-republican-wave-has-crested-2-new-polls-show-significant-7-point-gains-for-the-democrats
The Republican Wave Has Crested"; 2 New Polls Show Significant 7 Point Gains for the Democrats
I'm starting to think she is secretly a Democrat trying to bring the Republican party to it's knees by portraying a Republican simpleton that used to be a witch whose meatballs got in the way of her Hare Krishna ideas......
I need to say that I think she is probably a nice person, she seems so childlike for her age.
But she is a couple of meatballs shy of a spaghetti dinner.
Like Larry Craig perhaps or Mega Chuch Bishop Long? We can tell she is Republican, she believes the Earth is flat.
"We can tell she is Republican, she believes the Earth is flat."
I almost fell out of my chair on that line. I remember being in Texas a few years back and my buddy says, " I know you aren't a Republican...You're too smart to be one!" I think that line belongs with my buddies! LOL
Wish we could bring back Clara Peller. I miss the old 'WHERES THE BEEF!' days of politics!
Hate to break your bubble,but the MSNBC polls are so laughable.Read REAL CLEAR POLITICS polls which is the avg of all polls and you will see that MSNBC polls are a JOKE!!!!!!They are way,way,way off from everyone else.They have states where Rep. are up by 6,8,8,10 and 13 pts called toss-ups!!!!They have 2 where the Dem is behind by 5 and 6 pts called leaning Dem.MSNBC should be ashamed for misleading you gullible fools.Just go to that site so you can see what dupes they made of you.Look it up!!!!!!!!!!
We don't need the polls Joe. The Republican party has chosen one to many goof balls. Let go of the outdated Republican ways. Embrace your new ruling party, the Democrats!
-Tom Bevan, cofounder of Real Clear Politics
The RNSC is "considering" contributing? If she's such a viable candidate, why don't they just give her the money? Hmmmm.....
You Liberals believe the polls that say O"Donnell is way behind and she is.Yet you refuse to believe you"re going to have you"re clocks cleaned next month.
Great point Joe. Some people like to talk from both ends.
... And some just like to talk from just their "south" end!!
Guess we better have em cleaned before then cause if, by some fluke of nature, the GOP regains power there won't be any clock cleaners left to perform the work, unless of course, we outsource them.
Lets all meet back here on Nov 3rd and see who has the Tea Baggers to show up when they loose. I am Repub but GO DEMS. Get out and vote so we don't have to hear the the words " Speaker of the House Beuhner " ok I can't spell his name now but I don't care.
Oh please don't stop, O'Donnell! I'm having too much fun watching you try to pull a "Palin" with your peek-a-boo bangs hair-do, your big, doe eyes batting and your ootsie-cutsie-ness.
Oh my gosh, you and your crew are cracking me up! The "witch" thing floored me... If I were a woman I might not be enjoying it so much because you are such a disgrace to your gender but, hey...I'm not the one who keeps encouraging you. :-D
Sorry Joe, you are smoking something.
Joe - If you admit O'Donnell's far behind, how are the Democrats going to get their clocks cleaned?
Uh, DEE, there are a lot of individual races. The Dems are going to lose most of them. I'd say that O'Donnell is almost certain to lose, but after Al Franken got elected to the senate, I realized that people really will vote for anyone - even a genuine buffoon.
Spider,
Al Franken's job was working/acting as a "buffoon", although the correct word is comedian. Christine McDonnell is not acting/working she actuallly is a "buffoon", there, my friend, is the difference. She is the real deal!
Nothing to see here folks, just a Sarah Palin cloning gone wrong.....
Does the cloning have a fully functioning human brai........ uh, never mind.
drive-by-observer, no she doesn't have a functioning brain but neither does the original before cloning.
Can she even formulate a coherent sentence? For example, parse this one... LOL
"The more people working to win towards victory on November 2nd, the better," she told NBC News. "But if they don't, I'm still confident that we can win."
If it was, it could, but if it wasn't, it might. Then again on the other hand, either yes or no, I don't know.
Geez- maybe I could write for Bush and this nit wit.
THAT one sent the Diet Coke flying Buzz...
LMAO!
Delaware voters will be deciding who their representative in Washington D.C. will be. But Christine O'Donnell makes no sense. Why is her entire candidacy wrapped up in an ad that says "I am not a witch"? Usually a candidate would cite something out of a resume -- a past experience, a particular skill, something on record -- that shows why he or she would be good as a representative for the people. Christine O'Donnell says that she is the victim of "character assassination" -- all she has to do is go public, go before the cameras, talk about which issues she will work for on behalf of the state. It might be good if she can show that she knows what representatives do, and if she shows that she can stand on her own two feet without a fleet of men in suits to shelter her from the media.
Everybody is talking about these candidates none of them are concerned what is going on there trying to get into office because they know that if they get to Washington that that's the end of the rainbow and the pot of gold. No one is going to spend 100 million dollars to get a seat that pays $174,000 a year unless they have something to gain. I have been reading about all the corruption in today's government that were going back to rich and poor were the rich will be the master and we will be in slaved working and buying at the company store. Now my question is do you think we as American citizens ought to rise up somehow and tell them that enough is enough. The last time I read anything its all about we the people not R,D,I's its the people of this country not big business and big money, but they have bought the USA and we set back and listen to all the lies that are being told and it seem like the bigger the lie the more people listen. So I would like some input on just how we ought to take back our country because are rep's. are not listening there just taking the big checks and laughing all the way to the bank, so if you would I really would like to see what kind of movement you think would make them set up and listen or just start making the votes ourselves and let the people make the decision's not the corrupt politicians. I know there's probably a million ways to do this but I'm just a retired electrician who worked 45 years for what i have and now would like to do something to try to take control of this so lets sound off . Thanks
I smell a business opportunity here. Just start re-labeling Halloween witch costumes to Christine O'Donnell costumes!
All Hallows' Eve is 2 days before the election, is this a coincidence?
She cant believe the lack of support. She did buy the red "Sarah Palin" edition shirt. She threw the words "bailout" and "Marxist" around. What more convincing do we need??
She believes in bailing herself out by continuosly lying.... she probably does not know the meaning of Marxist. All she wants is the limelight.
Here's how the previous "pinata" is doing now that the circus has moved on..
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/nv/nevada_senate_angle_vs_reid-1517.html
Crazy-50% Extremely disliked-46%
OK, I'm serious about this one:
How long will it be before the righties start hollering about how 'afraid' we all are of Christine because we post negative 'stuff' about her, and have such fun with her goofiness??
drive-by, Give it a day or two. They just love to attack facts with their Bull.... ah fiction.
drive-by:
Maybe you're not afraid because you're perceptive enough to realize that you libs are going to receive the ass-kicking of your lives in 3 weeks. And oh, O"Donnell will not be one of the winners, so you can relax on that issue.
Maybe not on this thread. I've noticed two of those usual hollerers posting negative comments about O'Donnell.