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Further, it is silly to look at the actual voters on election night, and assert that the same voters would have shown up had Castle been the nominee. Especially when another argument made is that Castle voters stayed home,

That argument is near and dear to the hearts of Delaware GOP insiders. However, it is clearly rejected by the facts.

Actual Republican turn-out was proportionately slightly HIGHER than Republican pecentage of voter registration.

Actual Democrat turn-out was significantly LOWER than Democrats' percentage of voter registration.

SO the theory that Republicans stayed home is contradicted by the facts. Republicans turned out in slight higher numbers than their precnetage of voter registration.

Democrats turned out in LOWER numbers than their percentage of voter regisration.

So the facts show that Democrats were not motivated to turn out, while Republicans did not stay home.

Is your argument now that Castle would only draw votes from registered republicans, and that independents and democrats weren’t among his supporters who would have stayed home?

Remember, Castle was about the most liberal “republican” in the country. That was the reason he had to be defeated. It seems odd now to try to argue that his support was only among registered republicans, especially given that when the registered republicans voted in the primary, he LOST.

I know you were involved in running political campaigns, so I have to assume you are intelligent enough to not really believe that a 44-43 exit poll against a candidate who wasn’t ON the ballot means that candidate couldn’t win.

And we haven’t even mentioned that a sizable part of O’Donnell’s voter base would never have said in an exit poll that they would vote for Castle. IN fact, I could see a lot of them saying they would have voted for Coons, precisely so they could make this stupid argument now.

Just be happy that O’Donnell, for all her flaws, managed with Palin’s help to keep Castle from winning the republican nomination. You should be PROUD that Castle was stopped, not trying to argue that he wouldn’t have won anyway.

You know that, by arguing that “he wouldn’t have won”, you are actually giving credence to those who say that if he could have won, he should have been the nominee, regardless of his views. Otherwise, there would be no reason to make the argument.