The Top Races
I will first post the results, and all throughout the day as we rub the amazement from our eyes, we will discuss the vast implications of last night’s landslide. My first thought is that the Delaware Republican Party is dead. Literally. I am shocked that Copeland lost so horrifically. He is their future, and he barely beat out Karen Hartley Nagle’s vote total. My God. If I am a Delaware Republican this morning, suicide is on my mind.
FINAL DELAWARE RESULTS
PRESIDENT
Barack Obama—Joseph Biden 255,394 (62%)
John McCain—Sarah Palin 152,356 (37%)
SENATOR
Joseph Biden 257,484 (65%)
Christine O’Donnell 140,584 (35%)
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE
Michael Castle 235,.419 (61%)
Karen Hartley Nagle 146,399 (38%)
GOVERNOR
Jack Markell 266,858 (68%)
William Swain Lee 126,660 (32%)
LT. GOVERNOR
Matthew Denn 236,741 (61%)
Charles Lamont du Pont Copeland 149,222 (39%)
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
Karen Weldin Stewart 217,070 (57%)
John Brady 156,438 (41%)
Tom Savage 5,632 (2%)
hey hey! I am glad that KWS won decisively and that Savage was statistically out of it.
In light of her 16 % point victory margin and the relentless pounding she took over her personal finances, I began to wonder whether the attention brought to bear on Karen Weldin Stewart’s personal finances may have struck a chord with some voters who might have experienced similar personal financial problems while feeling they (themselves) were fairly competent people and projecting that same feeling onto her– a basically decent person going through tough times.
I realize some people that post here think she is not a decent person,but that is not the point I am trying to make.
I am saying what made her unlikeable to the people who attacked may have made her a more sympathetic candidate to some voters who had similar experiences. AND if her opponents had not brought this issue out so vehemently, these voters would not have even known they shared this experience with her .
I am not making a delcaration, just raising a possibility.
I suspect that the counter argument would be that the accusations did not make it into the minds of the electorate. We all know about it, but we breathe the news.
If Action News had done a story on it or The NJ had done an investigative report, I suspect people might have looked beyond party for that one race, as many of my friends did.