The Dems held the seat for 40 years. And now it is gone. Great news.
From American Thinker.
Nevertheless Joe Booth won, taking a seat that was held by the Democratic Party for roughly 40 years in a state where the Democrats rule the House, Senate, and the Governor's office.
What is most remarkable about the win was the margin. Joe garnered over 60% of the vote in a heavy Democrat area and trounced Adams Mervine by 30 points.
I went to a couple of the polling places and the turn out for Republicans was huge. Far be it from me to say this is a bellwether, but I would venture a guess that the current state of local and national politics is beginning to bring out the conservative wing of the Republican Party here. And if it can happen here it will likely happen elsewhere.
If ice-blue seats aren't safe in Delaware (I guess having your former Senator as VP doesn't carry much weight after all), it means all of those folks figuring out the 'safe' seats in the midterms may need to take another look. This should scare the crap out of the Blue Dogs, and will make the DNC spend tons of money in lots of places they never anticipated. When you look at the Republicans running away with the Governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia by double digits and coat everything with Obama's tanking poll numbers, and Rasmussen's poll showing the Republican leading in the generic congressional ballot by 43-38, the highest spread in years, something has got to give pretty soon.
H/T Tammy Bruce on Twitter, always worth a follow for the good stuff.
Comments
You forgot to mention that the Democrat candidate for "Estate Senator" chose throughout most of the campaign NOT to debate her opponents until bad publicity forced her to, alienated a key constituency at one of her "freindraiser" parties, generally had a lack of substance despite growing up under the shadow of her legendary multi-term father, overused her family name and implied
that she had some sort of hereditary right to his seat.
Joe Booth worked extremely hard to win in the 19th Senatorial District and had about 500 volunteers working on his campaign from all three Delaware counties, the DE-GOP State Committee and
the GOP National Committee all the way to National Chairman Micheal Steele. Joe outspent his Independent Party of Delaware
(IPOD) opponent, Matthew Opaliski(R) of Greenwood 100 to 1. There was also a Libertarian candidate who received 56 votes and 10 write-ins.
Wolf von Baumgart
State Chairman, IPOD
Matthew Opaliski ran a very clean campaign, worked hard on
the trail and seriously challenged the mismangaged, closed-shop, special interest dominated politics of Delaware with a fresh perspective. There was considerable GOP consternation that his Independent candidacy would effectually divide the Republican vote and hand the election over to Poll Mervine, but in the end, the rumor that he would not be allowed to join the GOP caucus if elected, Joe's seniority, status and massive resources won out.
All told, it was the political "Perfect Storm". Its aftermath leaves the GOP vulnerable to lose the 37th Representative District seat and hands the Democrats a 3/5 House supermajority required to raise taxes and turn Delaware into a one party state...
Wolf von Baumgart
State Chairman, IPOD
ipodosc@yahoo.com
P.S. :
If there is an Independent thinker like Matt Opaliski out there in the 37th District, we have a nomination open.
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