{"id":7175,"date":"2010-09-23T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2010-09-23T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T00:37:06","slug":"mike-castle-mulling-write-in-bid-in-delaware-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7175\/mike-castle-mulling-write-in-bid-in-delaware-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Castle Mulling Write-in Bid in Delaware Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hell hath no fury like a career politician scorned.\u00a0 Nine-time congressman and two-time governor Mike Castle (R-DE) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0910\/42649.html \" target=\"_blank\">will conduct a poll to gauge his chances as a write-in candidate<\/a> for Delaware\u2019s Senate seat.\u00a0 If he chooses to challenge the Republican Party\u2019s nominee, Christine O\u2019Donnell, Castle will join Lisa Murkowski(I-AK) and Charlie Crist (I-FL) as moderate GOP statewide elected officials who decided to quit their party rather than their hold on power.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: If Castle follows through with a write-in candidacy Christine O\u2019Donnell will gain ground in the polls.\u00a0 Like other Tea Party candidates she\u2019ll be able to attack Democrat Chris Coons for supporting President Barack Obama\u2019s agenda, and charge that Castle is nothing more than a self-aggrandizing career politician.<\/p>\n<p>In this climate, the truth of both of those charges could be enough to give O\u2019Donnelll a Senate seat for six years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hell hath no fury like a career politician scorned.\u00a0 Nine-time congressman and two-time governor Mike Castle (R-DE) will conduct a poll to gauge his chances as a write-in candidate for Delaware\u2019s Senate seat.\u00a0 If he chooses to challenge the Republican Party\u2019s nominee, Christine O\u2019Donnell, Castle will join Lisa Murkowski(I-AK) and Charlie Crist (I-FL) as moderate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[353,1872,1855,1871,1391,1857,28],"class_list":["post-7175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-charlie-crist","tag-chris-coons","tag-christine-odonnell","tag-delaware","tag-lisa-murkowski","tag-mike-castle","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7176,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}