Unfortunately, O’Donnell did hurt Toomey. They used her candidacy and association to beat him every chance they got, even to the point he semi-disavowed her. Why her long-ago comment about masturbation played such a prominent role while BO’s admitted cocaine use is unmentionable goes a long way to demonstrate how the media is stacked against Republicans.
Why her long-ago comment about masturbation played such a prominent role while BO’s admitted cocaine use is unmentionable goes a long way to demonstrate how the media is stacked against Republicans.
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Conservatives have a fair shake from FOX News, so long as the conservative view isn’t too far from the mainstream Republican view. We also have the Drudge Report, which is fair in it’s selection of stories tilting towards the entertaining over the important. We have Rush Limbaugh and a bevy of talk radio guys. We have the Free Republic and a set of self-referential bloggers and internet activists. We have Brietbart who I don’t know much about. We have the National Review and Human Events, Focus on the Family, and a few non-profits that have some reach. I’m listing them because it’s such a small sliver of the media compared to the daily papers nationwide, the local news, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney, A&E, CNN, the weekly and monthly magazines and the weight of the mainstream media. It’s a rough road. I don’t think there is a single family friendly “traditional” network on the air in the entertainment space.
It was NOT Christine O’Donnell’s words that did her in. It was the RATs (and RINOs) use of them to cast her as a nut. All the while ignoring her opponent’s “bearded Marxist” words.
Face it, RATs hate women, and especially Conservative women. They advocate violence; they smear without basis; they even attack their families. And women take it. Why?
I disagree. I was a volunteer in the Adcock campaign for PA-13 - and the way Schwartz had been acting (attacking Adcock on TV and in mailings (a strange thing to do against a candidate with name recognition problems) and suddenly being willing to appear in person for townhalls and debates, well, I thought her internal polling showed Adcock was in single-digits against her, maybe within five. And then the Dems threw out all of the stops in their GOTV efforts - even hiring canvassers at the last minute via Craigslist. They got massive turnout in Philly and the burbs - since Sestak was down six or more in polls and closed to within two statewide in the end, I figure the Dems lifted eight percent in their numbers in the Philly area - I was a rover in NE Philly all day, and the polls were hopping. Schwartz ended up winning by 13 percent - and the Dems had to have over 60 percent turnout in Montco - a stunning number given that the average mid-term turnout is in the low forties. A Dem voter I work with said she had, on election days, three calls to her home and a brochure left on her door - and she had responded earlier to a GOTV call by saying she would vote for the Dems, so they had strike teams calling and showing up in person to try and ensure she voted.
This was all about the Dems having a massive GOTV effort in Philly, and less about O'Donnell. The Dems dislike Toomey on his own accord because he is so conservative, and he became a rallying point for their GOTV efforts that overcame the Dem enthusiasm gap in this area.