Mike Castle

This is one of the more surprising polls I’ve seen recently: Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of the vice president, is leading Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) in a hypothetical 2010 U.S. Senate matchup. The Susquehanna Polling & Research survey has Biden beating Castle by five points. When they polled this race in April, Castle [...]

Research 2000/Daily Kos polls the First State’s potential Senate matchup between long-serving Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) and first-term state attorney general Beau Biden, the son of the vice president. Castle has a statistically insignificant 46-45 lead, bolstered by an 8-point lead among independents and the support of 21 percent of Democrats.
Results like this probably make [...]

Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), the last major Republican office-holder in the very blue home of Vice President Joe Biden, is set to announce whether or not he’ll run for the U.S. Senate in 2010. Politico reports that he’s in.
As I noted last week, Castle’s numbers have been softer than you’d expect from a pol who [...]

The first polling on the potential candidates for Delaware’s 2010 U.S. Senate race showed Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) winning easily. Public Policy Polling had Castle leading state attorney general Beau Biden by eight points. Susquehanna Polling and Research had Castle crushing Biden by 21 points. Today, however, we have a Rasmussen Reports poll showing Castle [...]

My hometown newspaper discovers the identity of the screaming woman in the infamous Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) video:
The star of the show — known as “Crazy Eileen” to callers of a Sussex County talk radio station — has gone into seclusion, declining interviews and avoiding publicity, even as previous statements by her have emerged referring [...]

I got a little friendly fire from my friend and colleague Matt Welch over last week’s article on the Obama birth certificate conspiracy. He took issue with my “contention that the movement ‘dogs Republicans’ (there being so very many other issues that have more bite than a few barkers).”
A little evidence that this conspiracy theory [...]

[UPDATE: I originally misidentified Fiorinia's abortion stance. She's pro-life.]
Josh Kraushaar notices that Republicans have gotten the U.S. Senate candidates they wanted in New Hampshire and Illinois, where they “lacked a deep bench of viable recruits — and their political hopes were largely dependent on one specific candidate running.” This feeds this week’s meme that Republican [...]

Tom Ross, the chairman of the Republican Party of Delaware, told me after the Republican National Committee state chairmen’s meeting that Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is probably going to opt for a U.S. Senate campaign in 2010.
“He spoke at our state convention,” said Ross, “and the audience was full of homemade ‘Castle for Senate’ stickers. [...]

The only Republican of stature left in my home state is Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), a moderate who has nonetheless voted with the solid GOP bloc against President Obama’s big initiatives. According to a new poll from Susquehanna Polling and Research, if the 70-year-old Castle runs for Senate against state Attorney General Beau Biden, he [...]

Republicans are coming to the House floor to argue for and against a resolution that’s preceding the surtax on AIG bonuses, with most of the speakers coming out against it. A rationale used by Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.), and Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is that the bill contains language that credits [...]