Why Mike Castle Lost

Published September 15, 2010 12:45pm ET



Mike Castle might have been a wonderful general election candidate in the Delaware Senate race. But he ran a terrible campaign in the Republican primary, which is why he lost to Christine O’Donnell, a Tea Party favorite.

Castle, Delaware’s lone congressman, came up short in four separate ways.   He acted like a candidate who hasn’t paid an iota of attention to what’s been going in the primaries across the country this year.

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