Who will become the next Senator from Delaware?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I've mentioned this to a couple of people privately, but I might as well add it here as well. No matter what happens later, this primary will probably turn out to be one of the most significant for decades. It might even be up there with the defeat of Howard Smith in 1966. It was ordinary voters that did this. O'Donnell is - in theory at least - completely unelectable, and it was ordinary voters that selected her regardless. Usually when lunatics of this sort become official candidates in winnable seats it's because they're part of a group that has taken over local party structures, or because they're a useful tool of local party structures. But here we have the lynchpin of the local party establishment beaten by someone unfit to catch rats at public expense. This is amazing.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Jesus, the most significant in decades?

One of; the distinction is important. But how many other significant primaries (that is; primaries that were significant as events in their own right) over the past fifty years can you think of?

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I don't know. But I do think that it is now possible; if it can happen in Delaware it can happen anywhere. What does that mean? That's a serious question; I don't know. What does it mean? I repeat that this sort of thing, in theory, does not happen.