More precisely: her campaign is absolutely and utterly incompetent.
It is pretty obvious now that grassroots anger at incumbents like Castle got her nominated - her campaign has done nothing right.
When she won the REPUBLICAN primary, the Delaware Republican Party should have supported her just as they would have had Castle won. I assume that they have some experience in advising candidates (other than taking their marbles and going home since their favored candidate didn't win).
She did not run as an independent - she is not an independent candidate - but other than Michael Steele, Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin's support, she may as well be.
Yes, O’Donnel’s campaign has been amateur hour, but think about a few things:
(1) She is not a professional politician. Yes, she has run before, but it is obvious her world doesn’t revolve around running for political office.
(2) She has gotten zero (0, none, nada) help from the GOP. Helping candidate with the mechanics of running for election (resources for creating and buying ads, setting up appearances, creating mailings, etc...) is one of the legitimate functions of a political party, and something every legitimate candidate running expects from their party. Even though O’Donnel is the legitimate GOP candidate, the GOP has refused to fulfill its obligations towards O’Donnell. Instead, the GOP has refused to help her in any way.
So yes, it is amateur hour, but who’s fault is that? The professionals (the GOP) has refused to help O’Donnell, even though they have an obligation to do so. That has left O’Donnell to rely on the only people participating in her campaign: the amateurs.
The blame doesn’t lie with O’Donnel. The blame lies with the GOP establishment that has refused to live up to their side of the political party bargain.
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Do you typically fall for the media spin?
I thought her campaign was mostly volunteers. Where are the RNC people? Oh yeah, they wanted her opponent so they are gleeful every time she makes a wrong move. You can actually see it in their faces when any one of them is asked on some show, usually on FoxNews, about O’Donnell and how she seems to be closing the gap. They mouth the words and you can see they just so want her to lose! She doesn’t meet there ‘vision’ of a good politician.
This is one race I so want to see as an upset. If it is at all close, I want to crush the elite in the Republican party, because even the most basic of help with things like the media, or just organization might have put her over!