Four Reasons Why Christine O'Donnell Might Win
(By John Feehery, The Hill) - Here are four reasons [Christine] O’Donnell, despite all her flaws, might very well win.
Her opponent: Chris Coons is terrible. He has been terrible when it comes to protecting the taxpayers and the fiscal integrity of the county he currently runs. According to a National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) analysis: “As New Castle County’s spending skyrocketed by 10 percent under Coons’s leadership, he shifted the burden for his irresponsibility to taxpayers with three massive property tax hikes of 5 percent, 17.5 percent and 25 percent respectively. In 2008, Fitch Ratings downgraded the county’s ‘rating outlook’ from stable to negative because the county’s cash balances were decreasing under Coons’s reckless stewardship.”
Her supporters: O’Donnell has become the newest media superstar, and that has helped her get the money necessary to run a decent campaign. The NRSC changed course and gave her the maximum donation allowed under law, and most Republican senators and presidential candidates will follow suit. In fact, she reportedly raised more than $500,000 the day after her primary win, with some reports saying she raised close to a million. That is a pretty impressive take for a woman who has no chance of winning.
Her state: Yes, Delaware has been a blue state, but it is not clear if that is because of the politicians or because of the voters themselves. Tom Carper, for example, is one of the most moderate Democrats out there. He is not from the Bernie Sanders school of Democrats, because he knows he can’t be. And while Mike Castle has been a very moderate Republican, his moderation came not because he had to vote that way, but because, as a former governor, he wanted to vote that way. Sure, Joe Biden had been unchallenged for a generation, but that doesn’t mean the state is deep-blue. It just means that Biden had been around for a long time. Delaware has one big city (Wilmington) and the rest is as rural as Alabama. The rural voters, given the choice, will vote like Alabamans. And as they showed in this election, they are motivated to vote, more so than the moderates.
The times: This is one of those elections where no incumbent is safe, and nobody with a record of raising taxes and raising spending is the favorite. This midterm election is a referendum on President Obama, and those who dislike him are much more likely to come out to vote. As Dick Morris points out in The Hill today, because fiscal issues are front and center in this election, conservatives are much more likely to do better, because people trust conservatives not to raise their taxes.
Her opponent: Chris Coons is terrible. He has been terrible when it comes to protecting the taxpayers and the fiscal integrity of the county he currently runs. According to a National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) analysis: “As New Castle County’s spending skyrocketed by 10 percent under Coons’s leadership, he shifted the burden for his irresponsibility to taxpayers with three massive property tax hikes of 5 percent, 17.5 percent and 25 percent respectively. In 2008, Fitch Ratings downgraded the county’s ‘rating outlook’ from stable to negative because the county’s cash balances were decreasing under Coons’s reckless stewardship.”
Her supporters: O’Donnell has become the newest media superstar, and that has helped her get the money necessary to run a decent campaign. The NRSC changed course and gave her the maximum donation allowed under law, and most Republican senators and presidential candidates will follow suit. In fact, she reportedly raised more than $500,000 the day after her primary win, with some reports saying she raised close to a million. That is a pretty impressive take for a woman who has no chance of winning.
Her state: Yes, Delaware has been a blue state, but it is not clear if that is because of the politicians or because of the voters themselves. Tom Carper, for example, is one of the most moderate Democrats out there. He is not from the Bernie Sanders school of Democrats, because he knows he can’t be. And while Mike Castle has been a very moderate Republican, his moderation came not because he had to vote that way, but because, as a former governor, he wanted to vote that way. Sure, Joe Biden had been unchallenged for a generation, but that doesn’t mean the state is deep-blue. It just means that Biden had been around for a long time. Delaware has one big city (Wilmington) and the rest is as rural as Alabama. The rural voters, given the choice, will vote like Alabamans. And as they showed in this election, they are motivated to vote, more so than the moderates.
The times: This is one of those elections where no incumbent is safe, and nobody with a record of raising taxes and raising spending is the favorite. This midterm election is a referendum on President Obama, and those who dislike him are much more likely to come out to vote. As Dick Morris points out in The Hill today, because fiscal issues are front and center in this election, conservatives are much more likely to do better, because people trust conservatives not to raise their taxes.
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