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Delaware aftermath, O'Donnell was a message and the GOP better listen.

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Well yesterday shook some things up, eh?  From my vantage point tempers were running wild across the Internet and within the GOP ranks.  Some of the responses were not so much because the veteran Mike Castle was upset and upset badly, but because the quality of the candidate leaves much to be desired. Christine O'Donnell by all measures is not a quality candidate and in some cases has been deemed unelectable.  Perhaps that is so, but one must really examine things from a more objective and simplistic fashion.  Taking everything at face value, considering the fact that O'Donnell is a poor candidate, considering that she may very well lose to Coons in November - she still won! She won, because Delaware Republicans were given a choice.  On one hand they had the establishment choice, status quo Republican Mike Castle, as liberal as a Republican can be yet a Republican poised to win in November and on the other hand they had O'Donnell, a candidate with a checkered past, no