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Fundamentals point toward O’Donnell’s victory: Delaware has been boiling for a year

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

The name Joe Booth might not mean anything outside of the Delaware’s 19th State Senatorial district, but he is an important part of the surge that will bring Christine O’Donnell to victory in November.

The fact that Senator Booth is in office is in many ways just as surprising as O’Donnell’s win will be on Election Day.

In 2009 the Democrat Senate Pro Tem of the Delaware Senate Thurman Adams died. He had been in office for forty years. EVERYONE in Delaware expected that Thurman’s daughter Polly Mervine would be crowned as his successor. Why not? She is Thurman’s daughter, she is of course a Democrat, and she had 2 ½ times as much money as her Republican challenger.

In spite of all of these factors Joe Booth crushed Mervine beating her by 30 points!

If this was an isolated blip on the screen, … Continue Reading:Fundamentals point toward O’Donnell’s victory: Delaware has been boiling for a year