Tea Party's Christine O'Donnell 15 Points Behind Chris Coons

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Tea Party's Christine O'Donnell 15 Points Behind Chris Coons

Chris Coons, the Democratic nominee for the Senate seat in Delaware, may not have the national name recognition of his Republican opponent, Christine O'Donnell, the nation's latest political celebrity.

But he has something more important at this point, a 15-point lead in the latest Fox News poll over the Tea Party-backed candidate. And that's with only 41 days before the mid-term election.

And not only that, it seems like Delawareans for the most part, have their minds made up.

As Fox News explains in its web report on the poll:

O'Donnell's challenge comes from the fact that most voters say they are "certain" of their choice, including 91 percent of those who plan to vote for Coons and 85 percent who say they'll back O'Donnell.

With only 11 percent of voters considering themselves persuadable, O'Donnell will be hard pressed to close the gap.

Anything can happen in politics; that's why they hold elections. But to overcome a 15-point margin at this point in a race usually takes an opponent's candidacy imploding or an awesome TV and radio air campaign funded by a ceaseless supply of money.

Jessica Kourkounis/AP Photo Delaware Republican Senate candidate ChristineO' Donnell, center, answers media questions at the Sussex County Republican Committee Picnic in Lincoln, DE.

Decisions on whether to pour resources into a campaign are typically made by political realists who ask if the money is worth spending. They usually look at the polls to help reach the answer.

Needless to say, a 15-point difference and the strong degree to which voters' minds appear settled in this race is the kind of information that could weigh on the minds of Republican strategists trying to decide where best to direct money in the remaining weeks.

It also puts more pressure on Sarah Palin whose support for O'Donnell in the primaries helped her win decisively against the more moderate Rep. Mike Castle.

Karl Rove, the Republican political strategist who has publicly raised questions about O'Donnell's finances and "nutty" statements, has challenged Palin to essentially put her money where her mouth by visiting Delaware, helping O'Donnell to raise money and spending her own money on her protegee's race.

Will she do that given the current state of the race? A lot of Palin watchers will be waiting for that answer.

O'Donnell also isn't helped in closing the polling gap by the questions surrounding her use of campaign funds. Those questions led the non-partisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to call for a federal investigation into the way she has spent campaign cash.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2010/09/21/130022553/tea-party-s-christine-o-donnell-15-points-behind-chris-coons?ft=1&f=1014

[The_Dude 1,142]

It's too early to think that a 15 point lead now will mean anything come election day.

[Darnell 8,479]

now wait a mo -

don't you folks really wish to support Ms. O'Connell ?

After all, she was a witch practitioner in a coven.. (This was revealed in an interview in 1999, regurgitated today).

Democrat/Replicant - shouldn't matter wot yer affiliation is, right? If you like witches, covens and some esbat - you should be supporting her !!!

[Pooky 3,825]

now wait a mo -

don't you folks really wish to support Ms. O'Connell ?

After all, she was a witch practitioner in a coven.. (This was revealed in an interview in 1999, regurgitated today).

Democrat/Replicant - shouldn't matter wot yer affiliation is, right? If you like witches, covens and some esbat - you should be supporting her !!!

Replicant?

Do we need to call a Blade Runner?

[Peikko 1,575]

Interesting call for Palin to put her $$s behind O'Connell. I think she should. Go Palin, go! :thumbs:

[twowls 217]

O'Donnell! I think until we understand the extent of her dark and fearsome teen witch powers, we should tread verrry carefully.

[The_Dude 1,142]

LOL, I saw a video where Rosie O'Donnell said something along the lines of "finally, i'm not the crazy O'Donnell anymore"

[_Simpson_ 250]

now wait a mo -

don't you folks really wish to support Ms. O'Connell ?

After all, she was a witch practitioner in a coven.. (This was revealed in an interview in 1999, regurgitated today).

Democrat/Replicant - shouldn't matter wot yer affiliation is, right? If you like witches, covens and some esbat - you should be supporting her !!!

I think you will find that most conservatives on VJ dont want to be associated with Christine.

[Danno 1,228]

Of course she is behind.... we have watched the media crawl further into her past and deeper into her history in 3 days than they did with Obama the whole time he was campaigning..

[Darnell 8,479]

Chris Coons revealed yesterday to be a Marxist?

Oh my - this campaign will be fun to watch !

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Revealed to be a Marxist? Really?

Coons in 1985: "My friends now joke" that semester in Kenya turned him into a "bearded Marxist"

In 1985 article for college newspaper, Coons discussed process of questioning America before "reexamining my ideas" and "return[ing] to love America." In the May 23, 1985, article for his college newspaper, The Amherst Student, Coons wrote that he questioned his previously-held political beliefs and "America" during his time at Amherst, including a semester spent in Kenya. In the article, Coons noted that his "friends now joke" that students return from Kenya as "bearded Marxists":

I spent the spring of my junior year in Africa on the St. Lawrence Kenya Study Program. Going to Kenya was one of the few real decisions I have made; my friends, family, and professors all advised against it, but I went anyway. My friends now joke that something about Kenya, maybe the strange diet, or the tropical sun, changed my personality; Africa to them seems a catalytic converter that takes in clean-shaven, clear-thinking Americans and sends back bearded Marxists.

[...]

When I returned last summer, I traveled all over the East Coast and saw in many ways a different America. Upon arriving at Amherst this fall, I felt like a freshman at an unfamiliar school all over again. Many of the questions raised by my experiences of the last year remain unanswered. I have spent my senior year reexamining my ideas and have returned to loving America, but in the way of one who has realized its faults and failures and still believes in its promise. The greatest value of Amherst for me, then, has been the role it played in allowing me to question, and to think. I had to see the slums of Nairobi before the slums of New York meant anything at all, but without the experiences of Amherst, I never would have seen either.

[^_^ 5,021]

It's too early to think that a 15 point lead now will mean anything come election day.

Agreed. There is no way Coons wins this thing in the end. 2010 is Tea Party year. This is their time.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

He has a beard, he must be a Marxist!

So what about mustaches? Hitler had one, Stalin had one. Lots of Americans have them. What conclusions can we draw?

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All this chatter about facial hair misses the point. The point is that there is no way in hell a Tea Party candidate with the endorsement of the Mama Grizzly Herself loses to a man who admits "questioning" America. Not in 2010. Not a chance.

[Darnell 8,479]

oh - sorry - source (from yesterday) was some US Senator in Delaware, going through the morning call ins on cspan tv. It was a live show, and he raised the issue , trying to run down the 'short list' of anomolies found between the two candidates.

Then later in the day, CNN picked up that broadcast, was slinging stuff about Coons being a Marxist.

Is he a Marxist now? I've no idea, and don't really care...

But this is FUN TO WATCH (on TV).

as for any 'web portal' that slings the info - sorry, I don't pick up this kinda info, online - I prefer TV for political news and slandering