Mike Castle: I’ll Win, But “It Won’t Be An Overwhelming Victory”

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Wilmington, Del.

About an hour before the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling released a new poll Sunday night showing moderate congressman Mike Castle trailing conservative activist Christine O’Donnell, 44 percent to 47 percent, in the Delaware GOP Senate primary, Castle predicted, in a most understated way, that he would win on Tuesday.

“I feel good about it. It’s, you know, worrisome obviously, but I feel positive. The polls are good,” Castle told me in a phone interview. “It won’t be an overwhelming victory, but I would imagine we will win by some comfortable margin.”

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