Some candidates won, some lost. But the people and ideas that were not explicitly on the ballot also won and lost. I was going to put together a post looking at the overlooked winner’s and losers but I’ll just get it started and allow you, Dear Reader, to crowdsource this mf’er.
Winners:
Jesse Chadderdon – Executive Director of the Delaware Democratic Party. While ERS deserves a lot of credit, it was Chadderdon’s work behind the scenes that drove a lot of last night’s success. His stock has clearly gone up.
Cassandra Marshall – Wilmington must be a force in Delaware Democratic politics and under Marshall’s no nonsense management, it is becoming that. This cycle she took on Wilmington’s insular Democratic Party and put in some real reforms. Wrong on Hillary Clinton, right on everything else.
Matt Denn – He did the right thing for his family and still has a lot of street cred going forward if he ever decides to use it.
Losers:
John Carney – Lackluster governorship outsourced to Ken Simple doesn’t look like a viable model going forward. (Sub-Loser: Budget Smoothies!)
Scott Goss – Yeah, I’m still talking about how bad your reporting was, Scott. Clean up your act.
Anthony Delcollo – Sturgeon showed how to take out the garbage in the Senate. Anthony is next up.
The notion of “nice” Delaware Republicans – No more of this pretending to be cool on social issues, then stabbing the middle-class in the back when writing budgets. Ramone and his ilk have been revealed for the scumbags that they are. The next election will finish the job.
The DEGOP – On a similar note, the DEGOP is a wreck. A regional rump party of evangelical nutbags. They have no legitimate statewide candidates on the horizon and their ability to obstruct the state legislature has been diminished.