i think she made a smart decision by not getting on the sunday shows this week and shouldn t have accepted in the first place, but, she needs to talk to the people of delaware. it is delaware voters, not conservatives around the country who will determine her, the outcome of the election, delaware voters will determine it. and there is as i say resistance. when she wins a stunning upset and incidentally i didn t predict she wouldn t win but won a stunning upset and this is the moment when she should be grabbing the imagination of the people of delaware and moving ahead in the polls like these other candidates around the country. roy blunt now has a 10 point lead, building upon the momentum that he got from winning the republican primary in missouri. in ohio, rob portman now hays a 20-point lead. chris: i want to move on and ask you quickly the new tape in which she said on the tv show, politically incorrect in 1999 she dabbled in witchcraft, how damaging is that? well, you know, so
example, lisa murkowski talked about how she was successful in bringing home pork to the state of alaska. and joe miller said, our countries in such bad straits we have to take we have to take our lumps along with everybody else and we should not be you are ducking my question. does it mean somebody like sarah palin moves up and, perhaps, is now the front-runner for the republican nomination? look, i think the vice presidential nominee of the party in 2008, if she runs in 2012, is a you know, one of the front-runners, i don t know if she is the front-runner and i repeat, look, there are several geological agents to go before the race shapes up, who in 2006 would say barack obama will be the nominee of the democratic party in 2008. people are narrowly focussed on 2010. and if sarah palin was to demonstrate her power and influen influence, where we started was, was delaware, she ought to go to delaware and campaign for her favorite, christine o donnell,
how she performs and karl rove stressed, i m not sure she will not have a chance and karl rove stressed she s 11 points behind in the first rasmussen poll, against a democrat and george bush lost delaware by an average of 11 points in 2000, 2004 and mccain lost delaware, by 25 points in 2008 and it s not bad she s 11 points behind and she can say i did flaky things and i have grown up and i m serious and if you want someone to vote against the obama agenda, i m your person, she can have a competitive race, i think. i think castle would have been a stronger candidate and i would have voted for castle but i m curious to see what happens in delaware now. chris: nina. a fallacy to write off christine o donnell. if you look at a different state, massachusetts, at this point in the special election to fill ted kennedy s seat, six weeks out, scott brown by the way in a state that is 3-1 democrat to republican, scott brown was an empty suit who posed nude in the center fold of cosmopolit
care plan and, ignore the question an counted on people s animosity towards those obama actions in order to win the election, or you can take the perspective i do, which is people are not going to hear these arguments about president obama and his policies and what the democrats are doing in washington, as long as these questions are out there. frankly, here s the data. if you take a look at the primaries like those in nevada, kentucky, colorado, missouri, florida, where a republican strong conservative won the primary they immediately jumped to the lead in the polls, nevada sharron angle went 11 points ahead of harry reid after she won the primary and kentucky rand paul moved 25 points ahead. in alaska joe miller moved 8 points ahead, in delaware, the rasmussen poll says christine o donnell remains 11 points behind chris coons, the democrat after the primary. and, we all want to have a i want a republican senate, i assume all the rest of these people do. the question is, what is the
way, delaware has few republican voters, more independents than republicans and more democrats than independents, people are anti-establishment and one of the challenges, they want to give republicans a chance but when they look at that, they say, wait this is extreme and that s the problem across the country. o donnell may be a bridge too far and delaware is not the best state to nominate someone who is a strong conservative and when the republican party was the kind of party, that was in charge and everything was quiet and, february 19th, 2009, rick santelli launched the tea party with the rant on cnbc, republicans are trailing the generic congressional ballot by 9 points and lost the national vote by 10 points, and, now they are ahead in the national congressional. by 7 points, 16-point swing and coincided with the huge amount of tea party activism with all of these upsets and, the congressional and senate races and republicans at the time, looking at the