Coons’ Early Campaign Math Adds Up
September 5th, 2010 • Related • Filed Under
By jason330
Back in February, after attending an early Coons get together, I wrote,
4) I was a little surprised by this one: Coons’ campaign manager thinks that Christine O’Donnell will ramp up her primary campaign since Biden has dropped out. The campaign is pretty sure that O’Donnell will try to tap into simmering teabag anger and will be a factor bleeding off (possibly) 10% of Castle’s support. I don’t see any signs that O’Donnell has a campaign, so I’m not optimistic about that.
Well that was on the mark. Even though O’Donnell has collapsed under the enormous weight of a teeny tiny bit of scrutiny, she still ramped up her campaign enough to clip 10% from Castle’s eventual total.
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 5 September 2010 at 8:13 pm:
Hooray for being right? We’ve been speculating about O’Donnell for months now.
Comment by jason330 on 5 September 2010 at 8:38 pm:
They were clearly had a better sense of it that I did/
Comment by Belinsky on 5 September 2010 at 9:37 pm:
Christine gets front-page play in Labor Day Monday’s Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/us/politics/06teaparty.html
Comment by jason330 on 6 September 2010 at 8:36 am:
Wow. Not only is O’Donnell covered by the NYT – but it looks like Tom Ross now writes for the Gray Lady.
Comment by anon on 6 September 2010 at 9:34 am:
We were ragging on Coons here for not going after Castle hard enough, but looks like Christine has done the heavy lifting so far in that department. Smart move for Coons; better not to draw Castle’s return fire any sooner than necessary. As Christine has learned.
Comment by jason330 on 6 September 2010 at 10:09 am:
Agreed. Coons has played it right from the start. I’m more optimistic now than I was in February.