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People will come out to vote who usually stay home.<br>
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On 9/18/2010 8:01 AM, David Green wrote:
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<div>If one knows a little about Delaware (I lived there for 5
years), one understands this as a significant event in populist
(anti-establishment) terms. Castle, the defeated, has been Governor or
Congressman, back and forth, for decades without serous challenge, just
as Biden and William Roth were, gaining power with seniority as if they
were senators from the old segregationist South. The state is the
epitome of bipartisan blandness, and it's assumed that electoral
politics is above any populist passion. But as Cockburn points out
today, it's a very corrupt state due to the credit card banks, and to a
certain extent DuPont. The population is supposed to feel grateful to
have two (usually powerful) Senators for a small population, and to
have no sales tax to attract consumers from adjacent states (MD, PA,
NJ, anyone going down I-95 between Maine and Florida.) That Senate seat
was supposed to rightfully belong to Castle--explaining the reaction.</div>
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<hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> C.
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[No one in the political class (20% of the pop.) has used the term
"ruling class" without irony since the last SDSer gave up and took a
teaching job. <br>
Something may be happening here ... but do we know what it is?]<br>
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Christine O’Donnell Slams The ‘Anti-Americanism’ Of The ‘Ruling
Class’<br>
September 17, 2010 4:55 PM<br>
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ABC’s Michael Falcone reports:<br>
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Speaking to an adoring crowd at the Values Voters Summit in Washington
on Friday, Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell cast herself
as an enemy of the “ruling class” and took aim at the
“anti-Americanism” that she said taints the establishment.<br>
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“The small elite don’t get us. They call us wacky, they call us wing
nuts,” she said, “we call us ‘we the people.’”<br>
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O’Donnell who has been the focus of attention for her surprising defeat
of Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP Senate primary in Delaware earlier this
week as well as her outspoken views on abstinence, condom use and
masturbation, among other issues, called herself a member of the
“values movement” and a defender of the Constitution (from which she
quoted during her remarks).<br>
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“Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our
legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize and tear her
down,” O’Donnell said. “In the diners and at the pig roasts, in the
town halls and the church halls I hear people embrace for the first
time a vibrant conversation about American values. They reject the
narrative that’s been imposed on them from the DC cocktail crowd.”<br>
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O’Donnell, who began her speech with a indictment of the Obama
administration -- a reoccurring theme at the event, organized by the
conservative Family Research Council -- said that the “incremental
assault on our freedoms, our values, our free enterprise, our property
rights our economic stability” had gone on too long.<br>
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“We’ve watched the tentacles of big government weasel their way into
every part of our lives,” she said. “Bureaucrats and politicians in
Washington think they should decide what kind of light bulb we use,
what kind of toilets we flush, what kind of car we drive.”<br>
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She added: “They’ll buy your teenage daughter an abortion but they
won’t let her buy a sugary soda in a school’s vending machine.”<br>
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The Delaware Senate hopeful recalled events that shaped her own
political views, such as the fall of the Berlin wall, and celebrated
the spread of free enterprise, including the rise of businesses like
Walmart and Home Depot.<br>
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“Only in America could that happen,” O’Donnell said, adding: “We saw
what freedom can do. We saw what happens when people have control over
their own money, their property, their labor, their ideas, their risk
and their reward.”<br>
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O’Donnell also wove religious themes into her speech, referring to “the
shining city on the hill” and “constitutional repentance.” Family
Research Council official Gil Merz who took the podium after O’Donnell
finished speaking implored the audience to pray for her: “This woman of
faith is going to be under severe attack.”<br>
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O’Donnell, who was played in and out of her speech to the tune of
Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin,’” still has a tough road ahead in her
quest to capture the Senate seat. A recent Public Policy Polling
survey showed O'Donnell trailing her Democrat opponent, Chris Coons, by
14 percentage points.<br>
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