What Castle Could Have Done to Win

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, conservative activist Christine O’Donnell defeated moderate congressman Mike Castle 53% to 47%–or 30,561 votes to 27,021 votes. It seems reasonable to think that support from the Tea Party Express, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin, pushed O’Donnell over the top.

What could Castle have done to ward off the tea party . As I wrote the other day, more moderate candidates who have won in 2010–such as John McCain in Arizona and Mark Kirk in Illinois–tacked right in their primaries.