O'Donnell: GOP Abandoned Me
Politico reports:
Delaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell claims the national Republican Party has abandoned her.
At a post debate party at an Irish pub, O’Donnell called out the National Republican Senatorial Committee for not helping her campaign.
"The Democratic senatorial committee is running ads against me. The Democratic Party is running ads against me,” O'Donnell said, according to Fox News. “The Republican Party on the state level, or on the national level, neither have come in to help me close the gap in the polls.
"And my opponent, there’s so much to attack him on, yet the NRSC refuses to play, and that, that baffles me," she added. "Because he’s a – he’s a sitting duck.”
The situation isn't that baffling, however: Party committees rarely commit financial resources late in the election season to campaigns that trail badly in the polls. A CNN/Opinion Research poll released Wednesday shows Democrat Chris Coons leading by 19 percentage points.
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