O’Donnell and Coons Face-Off for Delaware Senate

Tea Party supporter/ Republican Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell and Democratic Candidate Chris Coons faced off at the University of Delaware in a battle for the Senate seat in Congress.  During the 90 minute debate the two were pitted against each other in Mitchell Hall at the University of Delaware.  The debate was aired by CNN and moderated by CNN’s Wolf  Blitzer and Nancy Karibjanian of Delaware First Media.  UD students also took part in the debate through video taped questions.  During the debate Ms. O’Donnell challenged Coons’ patriotism openly referring to him as a Marxist who would rubber stamp overspending policies of the Obama Administration.  Coons, in turn, called O’Donnell a person devoid of concrete ideas, only experienced in delivering slogans and not solutions.   Ms. O’Donnell, who has not been able to close the gap in polls, came out with guns smoking.  She accused Coons of cutting off low-income seniors and disabled people from a property tax exemption.  She accused Coons of being a rubber-stamp for Obama and Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid.  Christine could not aggressively defend herself about her personal financial problems and stumbled when asked about her favorite Supreme Court ruling.  O’Donnell could not think of any and said she would put it oh her website later.  Coons declared that O’Donnell had experience at running for office, but not really running anything.   Coons also implied that O’Donnell was good at  catchy slogans that make good sound bites  but no good at focusing on Delaware issues.  O’Donnell implied that Chris Coons was part of the old guard of politicians, calling him a career politician.  Current polls show Coons leading O’Donnell by 16 points in the race.