Christine O’Donnell’s self-proclaimed “number one” qualification for U.S. Senate is an 8-day fellowship on the Constitution at the conservative Claremont Institute in California. Chuck DeVore, who lost the GOP primary for U.S. Senate this year, attended the program a few years ago and defends it: “People would often wonder if I was a constitutional attorney because of the intense training.”

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