Mike Castle is clearly not worried about Christine O’Donnell’s challenge. He’s been positioning himself to the left lately (perhaps worried about his numbers at <50%). Just this week he voted yes on the new $26B state aid bill which allowed teachers, firefighters, police and other state workers to keep their jobs. Bold guerilla blogger Mike Stark caught up with Mike Castle on Tuesday and asked Castle whether he would support filibuster reform.
Castle is the Republican Senate candidate from Delaware. I asked him if he’d consider joining with other Senators to change the Senate filibuster rules. He said, “I might,” and continued to say that this would be something he may speak about before the election.
I’m quite surprised by this. Filibuster reform is not on many people’s radar right now but clearly Castle is going to position himself as someone who will get things done and perhaps as a power broker (like Scott Brown or Olympia Snowe).