If Christine O'Donnell loses the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Delaware, her supporters may have this to blame:
Ex-aide rips O'Donnell in robocall
WILMINGTON, Del. — Christine O'Donnell's former campaign manager has recorded an Election Day robocall for the Delaware Republican Party meant to shred the tea party-backed candidate's conservative credentials as voters head to the polls.
The last-minute move appears to be the grand finale of what's been a fusillade of orchestrated attacks on O'Donnell originating from GOP headquarters on behalf of her primary opponent, nine-term moderate Rep. Mike Castle.
The call features the voice of Kristin Murray, who ran O'Donnell's 2008 Senate campaign against then-Sen. Joe Biden, and who charges that her old boss "is no conservative."
O'Donnell dismisses the attack as the work of a disgruntled former operative.
“Kristin Murray was fired by Tom Ross, DE GOP Chairman, in June 2008 for being incompetent. She was then picked up by my campaign, was paid and fired after 2 weeks of ‘work’,” O'Donnell wrote in a statement to POLITICO.
We won't know until tonight whether Castle's last ditch robocall attack was enough to bring his campaign back from the brink of defeat (the most recent poll showed him narrowly trailing), but if it does work, Castle's first order of business tomorrow morning won't be to start running against Chris Coons -- it'll be to mend fences pissed off O'Donnell supporters.