The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is up with its first ad against Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware Senate race. And interestingly, the DSCC avoids such hot-button issues as masturbation and witchcraft, instead focusing on O’Donnell’s financial habits.
Another notable thing about the ad is that it shows the incumbent party casting O’Donnell, who has pitched herself as an outsider, as instead representing everything already wrong with Washington spending. “We don’t know a lot about Christine O’Donnell,” the announcer says. “But here’s what we do know. She’ll fit right in, in Washington.
“O’Donnell spends money she doesn’t have. Hired employees she didn’t pay. Stiffed businesses. Didn’t pay her taxes. One of Christine O’Donnell’s former employees summed it up: ‘We were constantly trying to hold her back from spending. She was financially completely irresponsible.'”
[TPM SLIDESHOW: Christine O’Donnell: Anti-Masturbation Crusader. Witchcraft Dabbler. Republican Senate Nominee.]
The TPM Poll Average gives Democratic nominee Chris Coons a lead of 52.2%-38.8%.
