Archive for September 15th, 2010
A Little Triumphalism on The Occasion Castle’s Defeat
I think my favorite Castle series was the one that showed how Mike Castle paid back a couple of large agra-businesses for $100 k in campaign donations with 103 tariff suspension bills. Basically, tax cuts that ended up costing the treasury at least $120,000,000 in lost tariff revenue. The year was 2006…
15Sep2010 | jason330 | 14 comments | Continued
Wednesday’s Asshats of the Day
We have a tie for today’s award. It goes to both the Delaware Democratic and Republican State Executive Committees. Both groups decided to anoint people as their “officially endorsed” (read: preferred) candidates; the Democrats in the Treasurer and Auditor races and the Republicans in the US Senate and House races. In [...]
15Sep2010 | MJ | 6 comments | Continued
Coons on Hardball.
A stellar performance by Chris Coons. Click through for the video.
15Sep2010 | Delaware Dem | 40 comments | Continued
Walsh Leaves Office With Class
Sheriff Mike Walsh gets his parting shot in.
15Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued
Reality TV O’D Style
…My favorite moment was when one guy gripped his…
15Sep2010 | jason330 | 8 comments | Continued
Impossible to Satirize the GOP
Back in my blogging days I might have written something like this:Prediction: Fox News runs 7 straight weeks of investigative stories…
15Sep2010 | jason330 | 11 comments | Continued
Did I Hear This Correctly?
Evan Q was just on Rick Jensen’s show, and I think I heard this:
Evan said O’Donnell would probably attend the debate tomorrow night if the questions were provided beforehand. Jensen was shocked, started saying that he had never run a debate where the candidate had the questions beforehand, and then… they immediately went to a [...]
The Delaware Way Lives On.
The Delaware Way strikes again, and it benefitted the candidate that no one ever could conceive of benefitting. O’Donnell was airing negative attacks at Castle, sure. But the reality of Mike Castle, the all around “Mr. Nice Guy,” the beloved “Delaware’s Best,” Mike the Moderate, clashed irredeemably with his name attached to the myriad negative ads he ran. Mike Castle hasn’t run a negative campaign since… well, not in my adult memory. And it destroyed him, not O’Donnell.
15Sep2010 | Delaware Dem | 37 comments | Continued
Gremlin
All I can make of this is…someone didn’t follow the rules and got Palin wet and now we’ve got all these little fucked up Stripes running around spewing nonsense and threatening to shoot the GOP in the face at the bar.
15Sep2010 | Delaware Dem | 5 comments | Continued
How They Stormed the Castle: The Pyrrhic Victory
So how did this happen? There are two answers to the question, depending on what you mean by the question.
15Sep2010 | Delaware Dem | 42 comments | Continued
Miss Jamaica Concedes.
Alas, we don’t have Jamaican resident and heiress Michele Rollins to kick around anymore. She has conceded to Urquhart.
15Sep2010 | Delaware Dem | 4 comments | Continued
Shots Fired In The GOP War
Christine O’Donnell fires the first shots in the GOP civil war.
15Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 18 comments | Continued
Wednesday Open Thread
The Wednesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
15Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 33 comments | Continued
PPP: Coons 50, O’Whackado 34
Public Policy Polling has released their new general election poll following Christine O’Donnell’s suprise victory last night. Chris Coons holds a solid double digit lead over Christine, 50% to 34%.
15Sep2010 | Delaware Dem | 15 comments | Continued
Last Night I Was Shocked, Today It Makes Sense
Last night I couldn’t believe Christine O’Donnell beat Mike Castle. I walked around stunned. How could this happen? And then I realized what happened. Why wouldn’t she win? For far too many years the entire Republican Party has fed their supporters a steady diet of issue-less tripe. They’ve run on liberty, freedom, real America, family [...]
15Sep2010 | pandora | 20 comments | Continued
A Word Of Warning
Delaware Liberal is about to get deluged. A Christine O’Donnell win means her crazed supporters are feeling powerful and now that Chris Coons is the one standing in the way of her annointment their eyes will turn to us. I don’t know how much you followed what happened on the Delaware Tomorrow blog [...]
15Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 24 comments | Continued
Castle will not endorse O’Donnell, and will not run write in campaign
A Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) campaign source confirmed to The Hill late Tuesday that the longtime congressman will not be endorsing Christine O’Donnell. After the stunning primary loss, Castle’s campaign also said the longtime congressman is not interested in waging a write in bid this November.
15Sep2010 | Delaware Dem | 8 comments | Continued
Winners & Losers
Besides O’Donnell & Castle who are the winners & losers from last night’s Senate primary?
15Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 42 comments | Continued
The Other Results
The results of the statewide and district primaries. Any surprises?
15Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 29 comments | Continued
The 30,000
Yesterday, Christine O’Donnell garnered 30,561 votes compared to Mike Castle’s 27,021. Let’s put that in perspective. In the 2008 Primary, both . . . BOTH . . . Democrats Markell and Carney picked up more than 30,000 votes: 37,849 to 36,112. Coons, in his run against Gordon, received 31,405 votes. Here’s one that will make [...]
15Sep2010 | nemski | 9 comments | ContinuedFOLLOW DL
