Delaware's Decision

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Online.WSJ.com:

//This story just won't go away.//

By PETE DU PONT

Newark, Del.

Everyone in this state knew that Rep. Mike Castle was going to be our next U.S. senator. He had served as a state legislator, lieutenant governor (during my second term as governor), governor and nine-term congressman. He was well ahead in the primary and general-election polls. But in the Republican primary on Sept. 14, Christine O'Donnell won by a bit more than 3,500 votes.

As everyone in Delaware also knew, New Castle County Executive Chris Coons, the Democratic Party's Senate candidate, had no chance of beating Mr. Castle. But he was quickly some 15 points ahead of Ms. O'Donnell.

So last week I attended two O'Donnell-Coons debates and saw a campaign that could determine which party will be in the Senate majority. Mr. Coons has been elected three times to New Castle County office; Ms. O'Donnell has not won an election, though this is her third Senate run. But she has raised more campaign money--$3.8 million to his $1.3 million in their Sept. 30 reports. He is a real liberal, and she is a real conservative. President Obama came to town for Mr. Coons on Friday, and it seems likely Sarah Palin will likely be here for Ms. O'Donnell at the end of October, just before the election.

The debates showed that public policy positions of the two candidates are real, substantive and very different. The University of Delaware debate was run by CNN's Wolf Blitzer, who said when it ended that Ms. O'Donnell was the overall winner because "she didn't come across as just a weirdo or anything like that."

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This is the very reason that I've been trying to express a need to be fair to O'Donnell. I am not a fan, but those who are regulars on this site should know that the MSN coverage of any conservative Republican will be anything but fair. All that was heard from most of the "Drive-By"s was the Seperation issue, on which she happened to be right, although her response was ill phrased and poorly timed.

 

It makes no difference that the biggest names in the Democrat party make worse gaffs, and quite often (Ried, Pelosi, Biden and Zero himself are among the biggest offenders), yet anyone who only listens to the network channels for their news would never know it.

 

I am hoping that the voters of Delaware will look past the coverage at the two candidates. The only legitimate concern that anyone has raised about O'Donnell is her lack of experience, which IMHO is one in the plus column for her......look at where all of our experienced leadership has gotten us in the past two years.