Not too surprising.
A Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) campaign source confirmed to The Hill late Tuesday that the longtime congressman will not be endorsing Christine O'Donnell [...]
After the stunning primary loss, Castle's campaign also said the longtime congressman is not interested in waging a write in bid this November.
Mean, nasty politics aren't supposed to work in Delaware. They certainly worked in the closed GOP primary.
Meanwhile, the numbers are certainly headed Kelly Ayotte's way. With 66.8 percent in, she now leads 38.4 to 37.7, or 700 votes. Still tight, and lots of votes left to count, but Lamontagne will have to find votes somewhere.
For the general election, this might not matter much, per PPP's polling:
In New Hampshire though the electability gap has pretty much evaporated. Kelly Ayotte does only one point better against Paul Hodes than Ovide Lamontagne. That's quite a shift from our 2 previous polls in the state this cycle. Ayotte did 12 points better than Lamontagne in April and 8 points better as recently as July. And beyond that Lamontagne's net favorability is actually 15 points higher than Ayotte's, suggesting he might have more room to grow if he was indeed able to pull a last second upset tomorrow night.
The teases at PPP haven't given us any toplines, so we won't know how Paul Hodes does against the eventual winner until tomorrow. But according to their numbers, Lamontagne wasn't the New Hampshire version of O'Donnell. Indeed, he does equally well (or poorly) in the general election against Ayotte. And as PPP also notes, he had more room to grow than Ayotte. So while it would be fun to see Ayotte go down, her potential victory isn't a drag on our November chances.
Update: SSP on NH-Sen GOP also-ran Bill Binnie:
Bill Binnie is in 3rd at 14%, with 12K votes. If he spent $6 million of his own money, that's only about $500 per vote.
That's gotta smart.
Meanwhile, Ayotte's lead is now over 1,000 with 76.7 percent reporting. While there are plenty of votes still out there for Lamontagne to make up ground, the numbers are consistently trending away from him.
Update II: From Trix in the comments:
So, in other words...
Castle is saying that O'Donnell can go fuck herself... which we know that she won't do.
Update III: From Kagro, on Twitter:
Update IV: That's it folks. Going to bed. Ayotte looks to have sewn it up in New Hampshire. Tomorrow we'll have general election matchups from PPP in Delaware and New Hampshire. And I'm sure Rasmussen will have O'Donnell ahead by 17 points, Ayotte by 34, even though he was too chickenshit to poll the primaries.
'night!