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As pointed out this morning on MSNBC's The Daily Rundown, Christine O'Donnell, who is challenging Rep. Mike Castle for the Delaware GOP Senate nomination, recently landed in hot water for saying she had won two (of three) counties in 2008 against Joe Biden.
She did not.
She then backtracked on a radio program and said she meant she tied. She did not do that either. She lost Kent County 57%-43% and came extraordinarily close in Sussex County, the Southernmost county, losing by just 272 votes.
But even if she had won two of three counties, could a candidate still win? The short answer to that question is yes, particularly a Democratic candidate. In fact, it was done in the 2004 presidential election when John Kerry won Delaware but lost both Kent and Sussex to former President George W. Bush.
Why is this possible? Aside from the obvious -- that a candidate could win by one vote, say, in both counties and the other could win by three in the other -- there's a practical reality. Just 885,000 people live in Delaware, according to 2009 Census estimates. Sixty percent of them (about 535,000) live in New Castle County, the most Northern County in the state and which is heavily Democratic. New Castle, which is largely a Philadelphia suburb, is the one you drive through on I-95. It includes Wilmington, which is heavily African-American, as well as Newark, where the University of Delaware is (from where this First Read writer got his undergrad degree). President Obama won New Castle 70%-29%; Biden won it 72%-28%.
Kent and Sussex, which are just below the Mason-Dixon line, lean more Republican than New Castle. President Obama won Kent, which includes Dover Air Force Base and Dover Downs NASCAR raceway, with less than 55% of the vote and lost Sussex, the Southernmost county, 54%-45%.
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OK I have been gone awhile, Looks like there is a new format. Seems some Far left Liberal makes a asinine comment then the next 12 post are from the same libby using different names complementing themselves. Yeah I dont think i will hang around here, Might be back on Nov 3rs to rub it in a bit though.
what_you_selling
Seems some Far left Liberal makes a asinine comment then the next 12 post are from the same libby using different names complementing themselves.
Seems like you're suffering from the same paranoid delusions Glenn Beck has. I suggest you take your tin foil hat off.
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Yeah I dont think i will hang around here, Might be back on Nov 3rs to rub it in a bit though.
That's the day the socialist "government take over" will be complete; right? Rub it in.
Adiós Amigo we won't miss you at all, but I doubt you'll be back November 3rd. We haven't missed you at all, kinda been nice with out you.
This is the de-jour of Right Wing Tea Baggers Nuttery i.e. Lie and Dodge the media. In case they don't know it, Tea baggers have become a domestic and International Pun.
Another republican with nothing but made up lies to run on. This is the new republican party, it started with Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, O'rielly and Fox lies and made up stories, and it will continue until the 2% of the electorate that worship them stop believing them and I don't see that happening any time soon.
what u selling
Now thats funny.....I don't care who you are.......and so true
you took my name! might as well. I was thinking of changing it.
That's pretty good proud republican patting proud republican on the back. What you say what_you_selling, any comments on proud republican complimenting proud republican. Oh that's right republicans don't count.
Mo-I used to be 'proud republican'
Who are you now?
From MMFA, funny how the media ignores anything that doesn't fit their narrative, that's why they have 13% approval rating. Say goodbye dopes of nope GOBP.
Why this Gallup poll won't get as much attention (Hint: It's good news for Dems)
September 08, 2010 9:19 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Last week, when Gallup announced that Republicans held a ten-point lead over Democrats when respondents were asked their congressional voting preference, and that the ten-point gap (51-41%) marked an all-time height for a GOP advantage, the Beltway and right-wing media exploded with commentary.
The Gallup findings were a very big deal. (See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here for just a handful of examples.)
But oops, this week's Gallup survey finds that the Republican ten-point "generic poll" advantage has evaporated. It's gone. Adiós. Democrats and Republicans are suddenly tied in the generic poll. (And yes, that's precisely what the latest Newsweek poll also found.)
But good luck finding the non-stop commentary and reporting in the mainstream and right-wing press about the latest Gallup results. They just don't fit the preferred storyline.
Tags: Gallup Consulting
J72
Wasn't it like 43% to 43%???? If I'm wrong please correct me.
Have a nice day!!!
What is MMFA, I've seen this several times?
TRR, you are correct
If I lived in Delaware, I would register as a Pug and vote for her. Let her be the Pug version of Alvin Green. Call it Operation Chaos II. Thanks for the idea Limbloat!
Typical religious right candidate. Claims to live by the Commandments but doesn't hesitate to break them when it serves their purpose.
The least they can do is practice what they preach. But nope. Never gonna happen. They're not who they claim to be. They're ruthless and cunning.
Typical religious right candidate. Claims to live by the Commandments but doesn't hesitate to break them when it serves their purpose.
The least they can do is practice what they preach. But nope. Never gonna happen. They're not who they claim to be. They're ruthless and cunning.
Flub? Call it was it is--a blatant lie.
Typical...
A "Tea-Party" candidate so who's deeply religious and fanatically "pro-abstinence" she thinks even masturbation is a "sin" hopefully awaits-and gleefully accepts-the endorsement of Sarah Palin...A woman who couldn't even keep her own teenage daughter from getting knocked up.
Oh well...The "dumber" America becomes the more it benefits people like this.
Words like "Hypocrisy" clearly do not exist in their world, so "nothing" the ultra right-wing loony bin does even phases me anymore...