To any longtime Celia Cohen readers this passage is shocking:
There are three women running for statewide office in 2008, but for the most part it seems like old times — when women got ballot slots that had gone begging. Republican Christine O’Donnell is running against Biden. Democrat Karen Hartley-Nagle is in a Democratic congressional primary leading to a race against Castle. Democrat Karen Weldin Stewart is making her third try for insurance commissioner.
Castle got a passing reference without a single mention of his greatness.
Granted it was a story about “women” in Delaware politics, but I need a cold compress. My world has been turned upside down. I’ve been reading Cohen for 7 years and in that time she has never mentioned Mike Castle without somehow mentioning his greatness.
Typically that sentence would read, “Democrat Karen Hartley-Nagle is in a Democratic congressional primary for the right to lose to Mike Castle who rarely polls bellow 70% statewide.”