Christine O’Donnell Performed Better In 2008
Glen Urquhart, in his concession speech last night, said that his campaign had done better than any Republican candidate had done “in a while.” It probably depends on what he means by “a while.” Here’s the results from last night:
U.S. Senate
Chris Coons………….56.6%…..173,900
Christine O’Donnell…40.0%…..123,025
Others…………………..3.4%……10,200
U.S. House of Representatives
John Carney…………56.8%…..173,443
Glen Urquhart………..41.0%…..125,408
Others…………………..2.2%…….6,651
So, yes, Urquhart did outperform O’Donnell by a small amount ~2,000 votes. But you know who did better? Colin Bonini, who received 146,991 votes and Tom Wagner, who received 150,110 votes (and won).
You know who else did better? Mike Castle in 2008, who received 235,437 votes (61.1%). Even though O’Donnell had her best performance in terms of % of the vote (35.3% in 2008 compared to 40.0% in 2010), she still received less votes in 2010 (123,025) than in 2008 (140,595).
On a side not can I say that the polls were actually pretty damn accurate? O’Donnell didn’t break 41%, which was her ceiling even in the most GOP-friendly polls like Rasmussen and the last Monmouth poll. O’Donnell did succeed in taking 1-2% off of Coons’s total, if you look at the unusually large 3rd party vote. Urq’s support seemed to collapse again (polls had him 2-5% better than O’Donnell), similar to his performance in the Republican primary. I guess Urquhart can’t seal the deal with voters.
Tags: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware Republicans, Glen Urquhart
She got less in 2010 all because of Ginger Gibson, Dan Gaffney, Rick Jensen’s singular moment of lucidity, the DE GOP, CNN, MSNBC, Wanda Maximoff(?), leftist-commie-liberals (AKA moderates AKA RINOs), the fact that the earth rotates around the sun, evolution, masturbation, Mike Castle, the IRS, campaign incomes, the News Journal, oh my, I am out of time here. Notice that nowhere in that list is Christine O’Donnell.
Oooo, my bad, she channelled into my brain. She’s out now. She needs to find a dictionary and look up: c-u-l-p-a-b-i-l-i-t-y. All the bagz do, actually. They throw that on anyone else that is not themself.
I forced myself to listen to her ‘concession’ speech. It was like the bar bully getting a Sussex County ass-whippin’ and claiming that the other guy really skinned his knuckles badly.
Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), how fitting.
I’m not sure drawing conclusions by comparing ’08 vote totals to ’10 vote totals is useful. Given the difference between turnout in a Presidential vs. a mid-term election, wouldn’t everyone be expected to gain fewer votes this time around?
Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch), how fitting.
Yeah, but Wanda was our ‘good’ witch…although I’d still never desire to piss her off. Nasty spells can come from Wanda in those scenarios. 😀
Actually the fact that this was a midterm election and had such high turnout to rebuff COD is probably the real point.
And this time she had a war chest of money, and she was not running against a political powerhouse like Biden. If anything she had experience from running against Biden, and had the best possible chance of ever winning.
She also had all of the free time and backing of Fox news.
Next time she runs will be against Carper, and she has less of a chance against him then she did against Coons. Carper is well liked downstate; his office does alot for people with Social Security claims down here.
No, I agree it’s a bit unfair to compare absolute numbers, but my point is that Christine O’Donnell had a LOT more money this time around and it hardly bought her anything. She only finished a few % up, against someone who had never run statewide before. She had.
“It was like the bar bully getting a Sussex County ass-whippin’ and claiming that the other guy really skinned his knuckles badly.”
LOLOL!
I couldn’t get over her nerve after she conceeded to Coons that in her concession speech she said how she told Coons what he needed to do in DC. Yea like the people of DE bought her platform. I thought the neews commentators were going to fall out of their chairs.
I couldn’t get over her nerve after she conceeded to Coons that in her concession speech she said how she told Coons what he needed to do in DC. Yea like the people of DE bought her platform. I thought the neews commentators were going to fall out of their chairs.