Poll Shows O’Donnell Surging in Delaware

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Monday, September 13, 2010 at 9:50 am

On Friday I wrote a story about how increased media attention was shedding some unflattering light on Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party candidate for the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware, making her chances of winning the primary tomorrow unlikely. Today a poll conducted over the weekend by Public Policy Polling puts O’Donnell ahead of the GOP backed Rep. Mike Castle 47% to 44%, a three point lead that is within the survey’s margin of error.

Not too much has changed for O’Donnell in the interim, with the exception of an endorsement from Sarah Palin on Thursday night and another show of support on Friday evening from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) via Twitter, meaning these nods may be proving important:

Just 35 percent of Delaware Republicans said that they were more likely to vote for someone who had Palin’s support, while 24 percent viewed Palin’s endorsement as a negative factor, and 41 percent had no opinion.

But among those who saw Palin’s support as a positive, O’Donnell led Castle by an enormous margin of 83 percent to 13 percent.

The other big story in the polling data is Castle’s approval numbers, which have sunk significantly in the last month. While the moderate Republican has had a long and successful career representing Delaware for nearly two decades, his votes with Democrats on a few key issues this past Congress (like the Waxman-Markey House climate bill) have been getting trotted out a lot recently by right wing activists eager to see him go.

Recent polls also show that if O’Donnell does pull off an upset tomorrow, Democrat Chris Coons has a much better shot at winning the seat.

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john f. corcoran
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 2:14 pm

expect coons will not win but will testify in ryan homes corruption

trial, he never did his job and ryan homes wrote and enforced their

own law to swindle people.


Aster19
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 2:22 pm

Why don't you use the more accurate term “Liberal Republican”?


Whitegg
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 2:30 pm

41% were claimed in the article as “no opinion”. I suggest that the writer re-read the poll results. I got the impression that most of these

were tabulated as Palin's endorsement would have no influence on how they would vote….Check the poll.


teleprompter
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 2:56 pm

I wonder why Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank aren't endorsing anyone ?


teleprompter
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

Because there is no such thing as a liberal republican. It is an oxymoron.


teleprompter
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

Because there is no such thing as a liberal republican. It is an oxymoron.


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Dutra123123
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 3:01 pm

Read my lips – A-R-L-E-N S-P-E-C-T-E-R


InfoInCalif
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 3:09 pm

Palin, O'Donnel, Demint, Bachmann and others are incompetent, uninformed, irresponsible, and wholly unsuited to office, yet (it seems) more than a few people are willing to listen to them and offer support. Such con artists come and go, I'm just amazed that this bunch has managed to survive for so long. Perhaps that says more about the rest of us than it does about them.


dontlikeyou
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 3:13 pm

Love that O'Donnell. Liberals in the GOP… you have been served.


dontlikeyou
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 3:14 pm

Read my lips, John McAmnesty McCain.


Steve
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 3:27 pm

Pity if Castle loses to the nutcase. He's a good guy and much better for the state.


boldnhold
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 3:36 pm

You are so right and we have the best proof in the world with the con artist bo in the White House.


Tony
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 3:46 pm

I hope the tea party candidate wins. That'll ensure a democrat win in Nov.


Jerdjon
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 3:52 pm

Most American citizens have had enough of Marxism, whether it emanates from Democrats or phony Republicans. Many citizens are sick and tired of paying higher and higher taxes to finance the social engineering programs of self proclaimed political saviors of humanity. It is time to stop spending money in a fool's mission to change human nature. The Marxist version of “equality” exists only in the convoluted minds of eccentric philosophy professors dreaming of a world that doesn't exist. In the meantime, all the worthless experimentation is destroying the only system that has proven successful in lessening the poverty and suffering of all mankind. Ms. O'Donnell, regardless of her personal ability, represents the yearning of people to return to sensible government. The only Republicans that should worry about her candidacy are those that resemble Democrats.


SJames6621
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 3:59 pm

We dont have marxism in this country Jerdjon. What we have is runaway capitalism, where the rich get richer, while the middle class gets decimated in the near second great republican depression.

The Republican party is the follower of the guy who said – “tell a lie often enough and outrageos enough, and it will be seen as the truth”

The correct word to describe the republcian party / tea party is the party of ultimate greed.

Whose goal is to have a few super-rich people running the country, while for the rest of us and our children, the only option is minimum wage jobs in a big box store.

And when you are in the same boat, you will then wake up. And it will be to late to fight the takeover of america by republican -corporate greed


The Spontaneous Tourist
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:04 pm

Clearly, you know nothing of Mike Castle, the people of Delaware (where I was born, lived for 23 of my 30 years, and still have family including my parents and sister).

Mike Castle has long respected as a centrist whose goals have been to support the priorities of Delawareans and to promote the interests of the American people by working across party lines. Invoking claims of “Marxism” or calling Castle a “phony Republican” — when he has been a Republican for far longer than phony Tea Party types have decided they suddenly cared about deficits that have spiraled for more than thirty years — exposes your ignorance.

Personally, I'm torn on the issue of Castle's candidacy: I profoundly respect his service and his career, but I've been disappointed by his refusal to call out the Tea Party fanatics for the rabble they are. Thus, I'll shed few years should he lose his primary to Christine O'Donnell — becuase one thing that's absolutely certain is that she will not win that seat in a general election.


twoguns
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

Nothing has changed. The same KKK die hards have been in the shadows for the right since pre-civil war. They hated the Irish. Until
their cobbled coalition lost numbers. They hated the Italians. Until they needed them. Now the right is willing to serve the very fractions that would dissolve this great nation. “I would rather leave this country if health care passes” It wasn't a promise by felon guru Rush to relocate to GOD knows where. It was a promise of sedition. To expand the cracks in our great melting pot nation of immigrants. “The South will rise again” crowd is only 10% of the population. ANY citizen advocating sedition should be stripped of their citizenship.
So soon after 9-11. Remember. United we stand.


The Spontaneous Tourist
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:07 pm

Certainly – but he and his party have brought this on themselves. It's dangerous to feed blood to wild animals and encourage them to go on a rampage, hoping that you'll benefit from the resulting chaos.

Republicans are almost certain to make gains in November. And when they do, they'll be held to full account by these Tea Party candidates, whose shallow grasp of the real world will make them as much opponents of traditional Republican priorities as those of Democrats.


The Spontaneous Tourist
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:08 pm

When Mike Castle is viewed as a “liberal,” and people start getting their wish of pushing moderates and centrists out of the Republican party, it's a long-term prescription for the marginalization of Republicans as fringe lunatics.

And I'm all for that.


The Spontaneous Tourist
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:08 pm

Would their endorsements win your vote..?


The Spontaneous Tourist
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:09 pm

Specter is out.


The Spontaneous Tourist
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:13 pm

There aren't any more liberal Republicans. There are very few centrists and a handful of moderates.

But since it's all the rage these days to conclude that one is a liberal unless:

- absolutely determined the global warming is a farce;

- 100% committed to cutting taxes as an answer to everything;

- opposed to abortion in all cases yet fervently pro-firearms with no background check;

- under the impression that the sick should die and the unemployed are lazy; and

- a strict devotee to the principles of the founding fathers… unless it has to do with a strong standing military, which the founders absolutely opposed and Republicans now consider absolutely sacrosanct;

…yes, I guess that would make people like Mike Castle, a lifelong Republican, a “liberal.”


grettalulu
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:15 pm

Ms. O'Donnell can't even tell the truth when you have the proof right there with you.


seniorman
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:27 pm

Right on. The fact of the matter is that the rich don't pay the top marginal rate of income taxes for example – they actually pay a little less than 20% anyway on average. The rest of us meanwhile, pay most of the social security, sales taxes, utility taxes, gas taxes, fees and on and on – resulting in moderate income earners paying a total percentage of their incomes in taxes than billionaires do!


seniorman
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:29 pm

Should have said “… ,more in total taxes”


Steve
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:39 pm

Castle a liberal? Hardly. He's a level headed moderate. Apparently that's unsatisfactory to the extremist republicans that seem to dominate the party these days.


Guest
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 4:54 pm

Hope and Change at it's best. I hope this is right and I won't change. Ah, Jesse you do wiggle and squirm.


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bearclaw
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 6:08 pm

Bo is a Portuguese water dog. You equate him to Palin, O'Donnell, Demint and Bachmann? A bit of an insult to the intelligence and integrity of the dog . . .


bearclaw
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 6:20 pm

Christine O'Donnell spends money she doesn't have, uses campaign contributions to pay her rent, repeatedly violates FEC regulations for reporting contributions and spending, and is obsessed with other people's sex lives. The ideal theoconservative candidate.


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bearclaw
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 6:28 pm

Plus, it would be a joy to see how the Republican state leadership, which has thoroughly denounced O'Donnell and declared her unelectable, deals with having her at the top of the state ticket. Good for Democrats all around.


hananova
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 6:40 pm

Stalinists and Red Commie racists like Obama and his lap dog attorney general Holder should be impeached and imprisoned for crimes against the American people including: treason, selectively enforcing the civil rights laws based on race, extortion and bribery of senators during his forcing the ruination of the nation's health down America's throat, illegally seizing corporations, stealing their wealth and giving it to unions while misappropriating the life savings of those who owned stock in those corporations, and for appointing to the Supreme Court a homosexual bigot, and a sexist/racist from a commonwealth.

If Puerto Rico, which refuses and does not want to ever become a state of the USA, can have its own Supreme Court justice, why can't Trinidad, or Russia.


hananova
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 7:03 pm

If everyone hates Sarah Palin, then why are Democrats running refusing to be seen with Obama on the campaign trail?

Yeah, I know, Democrats are just smarter than everyone else, and with their superior knowledge they should instruct the rest of us how to run our lives, from birth to the grave.

Don't like it? In the new “Health Care” bill, regulations exist for the elitists to “research and discover” new diseases, and prescribe their therapy and treatment. So they will create new diseases like “Anti-social disorder” which will be diagnosed when a person votes for a Republican. Treatment will be re-education at Arctic circle camps.

Any country which allows 20 million illegal trespassers to demand free welfare, and which cowers in the face of a terrorist sympathist who promises religious-based murders galore if they refuse his latest demand – to desecrate the WTC grounds with a Moslem mosque, any society in which the President calls a book of hate speech – “the sacred, holy Koran,” such a country such a civilization is on the way out.


hananova
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 7:05 pm

I didn't realize the Washington Independent was such a pile of sludge. Gotta climb up out of the offal, get away from the sewer rats. Enjoy the slimy cockroaches and other detritus of the drainage canals. Good riddance.


bearclaw
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 7:25 pm

Yes, good riddance. Bye!


bearclaw
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 7:29 pm

Oh, yes, how on earth can the Democrats support something as horrific, anti-Christian and socialist as medical research???

Let's just go back to simpler times, when doctors bled their patients, and when disease was spread by “miasma.”

Oh, and I don't like your new word, “sympathist.” In fact, I refudiate that word!


bearclaw
Comment posted September 13, 2010 @ 7:41 pm

Puerto Rico has its own Supreme Court justice?

I suppose it matters little to you that Sonia Sotomayor was born and raised in the Bronx.

You are truly unhinged. Please seek help.


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