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Christine O'Donnell
O'Donnell in 2006
Republican candidate for United States Senator from Delaware
Election date November 2, 2010
Opponent	Chris Coons (D)
Incumbent	Ted Kaufman (D)
Personal details
Born	(1969-08-27) August 27, 1969 (age 55) Moorestown, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Single
Residence(s)	Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Alma mater	Fairleigh Dickinson University, B.A., (2010)
Occupation	Political commentator, marketing consultant
Website	Christine O'Donnell campaign site

Christine O'Donnell (born August 27, 1969) is an American politician who is the Republican Party nominee in Delaware's 2010 United States Senate special election, which will be held on November 2, 2010.

O'Donnell has worked as marketing consultant, as a freelance public relations consultant, as an advocate for sexual abstinence, and as a political commentator.

She ran for the Republican nomination for Senate in 2006, finishing third in the Republican primary and then gaining four percent of the vote as a write-in candidate in the general election. She was the party's nominee for the 2008 U.S. Senate election, losing by a wide margin to Joe Biden. In a surprising upset, she defeated nine-term U.S. Representative and former Governor of Delaware Mike Castle by more than 3,500 votes in the 2010 primary. The contest gained national attention.

Early life and education

O'Donnell, who is of Irish-Italian descent (from her father and mother, respectively), grew up in Moorestown, New Jersey, one of six children.

After graduating in 1987 from Moorestown High School, O'Donnell attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she was initially a theatre major and then did course work toward a B.A. in English and Communication. She did not grow up as a strict Catholic, but came to a turning point during college when she found herself drinking excessively and engaging in sexual relationships with men with whom she lacked a strong emotional connection. (She would later say of this period, "I know what it's like to live a life without principle.") She became increasingly interested in both politics and religion. She became an evangelical Christian, began preaching sexual abstinence and joined the College Republicans.

She attended her university's commencement ceremony in 1993 but did not receive a degree, due to outstanding unpaid tuition. In 1994, Fairleigh Dickinson sued her for $4,823, winning a judgment in New Jersey for the entire amount, according to court documents. The debt was paid in 2003. After O'Donnell completed a final general electives course in the summer of 2010, Fairleigh Dickinson awarded her a bachelor's degree in English literature with a concentration in Communication.

Personal life

O'Donnell is an unmarried conservative Christian known for her vocal opposition to abortion, pornography, and extramarital sex, including masturbation.

Career

Following college, O'Donnell went to work for Enough is Enough, a Washington, D.C.-based anti-pornography group. Over the following two years, she worked in conservative issue advocacy and for the Republican National Committee, and served as a spokesperson for Concerned Women for America, a Conservative Christian political action group which seeks to apply biblical principles to issues of public policy, and which opposes abortion. In 1996, she left Concerned Women for America and attended the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego, California.

O'Donnell then founded the Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT) in 1996 and served as its president. The organization lobbied the U.S. Congress on moral issues and focused on advocating chastity and other Christian values in the college-age generation. She made several high profile television appearances in her role. In 1996 O'Donnell appeared as a SALT representative on MTV's show, Sex In The 90's, in which she advocated for "sexual purity" when dealing with our "God given sexual desires". O'Donnell also advocated against masturbation, biblically equating it with adultery. Two years later, O'Donnell appeared as a SALT representative on Bill Maher's show Politically Incorrect, and argued that since America "took the Bible and prayer out of public schools" we were now "having weekly (school) shootings", and that the 1960s "sexual revolution" led to the AIDS epidemic.

She was awarded a Lincoln Fellowship by the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank in 2002.

In 2003, O'Donnell moved to Delaware to work for the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) in Hockessin, and bought a house in Wilmington. She registered a gender discrimination complaint against ISI with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), after which she was terminated by ISI in 2004. She then sued the institute in the federal court for $6.9 million for wrongful termination claiming that she had been fired in retaliation for filing the discrimination complaint and due to ISI's conservative philosophy that women must be subordinate to men. She said ISI's actions caused her mental anguish, and would lose future financial earning power because ISI's actions would delay her education. ISI defended its action by accusing her of having conducted a for-profit public-relations business while on their time. O'Donnell dropped the suit in 2008, stating she could no longer afford an attorney.

In 2008, she was unable to pay the mortgage for her Wilmington house and the mortgage company gained a judgment against her for $90,000; the house was due to be sold at a sheriff's auction in August 2008 when she sold it the month prior to her campaign's lawyer. The IRS has filed a lien and said that O'Donnell owes $11,000 in back taxes, but O’Donnell says that it was a mistake and a “computer error”. O'Donnell noted that the IRS agent handling the matter claimed he was perplexed by the agency's actions. She listed herself as self-employed and said she was doing "odd jobs" to make ends meet.

O'Donnell has worked as a marketing consultant She has provided political commentary on numerous Fox News television programs, such as The O'Reilly Factor, The Live Desk, and Glenn Beck. She has been supportive of the Right to Life and criticized pornography, masturbation and premarital sex.

Political campaigns

2006

O'Donnell ran for the Republican nomination in the 2006 United States Senate election in Delaware, finishing last of three candidates in the Republican primary, with 17 percent of the vote, behind winner Jan C. Ting and second-place finisher Michael D. Protack. She then ran as a write-in candidate in the general election against Ting and incumbent Democrat Thomas R. Carper, finishing with 4 percent of the vote as Carper won re-election.

2008

She was uncontested in the Republican primary for the 2008 Senate race after beating businessman Tim Smith at the state party convention with more than 60 percent of the vote. Her general election opponent was Senator Joe Biden, who was also running for vice president with Barack Obama on the Obama-Biden ticket. O'Donnell questioned Biden's dual campaigns, claiming that serving his constituents was not important to him and criticizing his unwillingness to participate in debates and candidate forums. Opinion polling during the race showed that O'Donnell was behind by a two-to-one margin. In the general election on November 4, 2008, Biden defeated O'Donnell by 65 percent to 35 percent. He had outspent her by $7,582,189 to $116,050. Biden's percentage of the vote was the largest of any of his senatorial campaigns, but O'Donnell was close to the 37 percent of the vote that the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket gained in Delaware's presidential voting that year.

Because of financial difficulties, she moved to a Delaware townhouse, where she pays half the rent with campaign contributions because it doubles as her campaign headquarters for her 2010 senate run. Her 2008 campaign ended with $23,000 in debt, and between 2007 and 2009 the Federal Election Commission cited her eight times for failing to supply contributions reports on time. As of 2010, she owes payments to staffers, consultants, and volunteers from the 2008 campaign.

2010

Following the 2008 election, Biden resigned the seat to become vice president, and Ted Kaufman was appointed to replace him. Kaufman indicated he would not run in the 2010 Senate special election to elect a replacement to serve out the full term. In February 2009, O'Donnell indicated that she would be running in that special election, and expressed concern that the Obama stimulus package showed that the United States was headed in the direction of socialism. She began fund-raising appeals. In October 2009, she reiterated that she was running despite the entrance into the race of Republican Congressman and former Governor Mike Castle. A Rasmussen Reports poll taken at the time portrayed what was likely to be a highly competitive race: O'Donnell only trailed possible Democratic nominee Beau Biden by a single-digit margin while Castle was ahead of Biden by a single-digit margin. In January 2010, Biden indicated he would not run, and Castle became the favorite to take the seat. On March 10, 2010, O'Donnell officially announced her candidacy before a small group of supporters at University of Delaware – Wilmington. In her remarks, O'Donnell criticized excessive government spending and said that Castle was the most liberal Republican in the House and that the Tea Party movement and grassroots anti-incumbent trends would devolve in her favor.

When a report from The News Journal in March 2010 detailed her fiscal difficulties, she attributed the problems to misunderstandings and errors, later admitting that she has "fallen on hard times." She also said, "I think the fact that I have struggled financially is what makes me so sympathetic." Nevertheless, her financial problems became a focal point of establishment Republican attacks against her. Some commentators also said the campaign against her showed elements of sexism.

As of early July 2010, she had raised more than $55,000 for her bid. In addition, she noted to a reporter in Philadelphia that she had generated $30,000 in online contributions roughly 30 hours after her appearance on conservative talk radio. A July 2010 Rasmussen Reports poll showed O'Donnell running ahead of Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons by a margin of 41 to 39 percent in a hypothetical matchup, while a similar poll in August had her trailing Coons by ten points (46 to 36 percent). During this time she picked up the endorsements of the Susan B. Anthony List, the Tea Party Express, which called her a “strong voice for conservative constitutionalist principles”, the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, and the Family Research Council.

O'Donnell supporters were heartened by the late August primary victory in Alaska of little-known, Tea Party-backed insurgent Joe Miller over incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski. The Tea Party Express then said it might spend as much as $600,000 backing O'Donnell. The added "buzz" about her campaign brought national attention but also additional scrutiny on her record, including a contentious interview on WGMD radio. With days to go before the primary, O'Donnell was further bolstered by an endorsement from Sarah Palin. She was then endorsed by Senator Jim DeMint, while establishment Republicans continued to worry that she would be less electable than Castle. According to the New York Times, her support largely came from the southern part of the state where Republican voters are socially conservative and against all gun control.

The O'Donnell campaign generated some controversy in early September when a political consulting firm hired by O'Donnell released a Web video insinuating that her opponent, Mike Castle, was having a gay affair. O'Donnell quickly distanced herself from the claims, pointing out that the firm in question was no longer working for her campaign, though the manner in which she denied involvement in the rumor led some to suspect that she was intentionally engaging in a whisper campaign by deliberately repeating the rumor while denying it. O'Donnell later appeared on Mark Levin's radio show, in which she blasted Castle's "unmanly tactics" during the campaign, saying, "this is not a bake-off, put your man-pants on." She won the September 14, 2010, primary election by six percentage points over Castle, garnering more than 30,000 votes altogether.

During the 2010 primary campaign, O'Donnell faced repeated questions about her misstatements and truthfulness from political leaders and news media including Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff to President George W Bush the Delaware GOP and the state’s largest newspaper, The News Journal O'Donnell often corrected the information, brushed it aside, or downplayed the discrepancies.

Political positions

Abortion

O'Donnell opposes abortion, including in cases of rape and incest. She would, however, allow a family to decide which life to save if a woman was going to die in childbirth.

Biomedical research

O'Donnell opposes embryonic stem cell research and research into cloning of primates, declaring that "American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains."

Environment

She has promised to block cap and trade legislation, and favors a free market approach.

Gun rights

The National Rifle Association endorsed O'Donnell, saying she "will be a strong voice in fighting ongoing efforts by anti-gun politicians to dismantle the Second Amendment"

Health care

O'Donnell is opposed to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enacted by Congress in 2010, and has pledged to legislatively remove federal funding from the law.

Fiscal responsibility

O'Donnell emphasized fiscal integrity in her campaign kickoff saying, "Voting to spend money we don't have has become the appealing option for too many politicians. The men and women of America know this is not sustainable."

Official language

In 2008, O'Donnell called then presidential candidate Barack Obama "anti-American" because "he did not vote for English as the (nation's) official language. What does that say?".

Religion-based positions

In a 1996 discussion on CNN, O'Donnell advocated the teaching of creationism in public schools and argued for a literal interpretation of The Bible's Book of Genesis. O'Donnell has rejected Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, asserting that it "had not met scientific criteria" and that "when you get down to the hard evidence, it's merely a theory."

On September 16, 2010, O'Donnell said she does not believe in regulating private sexual behavior, and if elected "it'll be the Constitution on which I base all of my decisions, not my personal beliefs."

Social security

O'Donnell would raise the age for receiving Social Security benefits.

Taxes and the economy

O'Donnell has said that she will never vote to increase taxes. Since the summer of 2010, O'Donnell has contended that "America is now a socialist economy", defining a "socialist economy" as one in which "50% or more your economy is dependent on the federal government."

Writings

• The Women of Middle Earth, Christine O'Donnell, Catholic Exchange, December 18, 2003]

Electoral history

Notes

1. In earlier years, there had been a discrepancy regarding her university graduation. Her 2006 Senate campaign website identified her as a Fairleigh Dickinson University graduate. However, she did not receive a degree from there until September 2010. See Tim Grieve and Andy Barr. "Meet Christine O'Donnell ..." Politico. Retrieved 2010-09-17. {{cite news}}: Text "date-2010-09-15" ignored (help)
2. In the ISI lawsuit, O'Donnell falsely claimed to have been accepted into a master's degree program at Princeton University; in actuality, she had not yet received a bachelor's degree from Fairleigh Dickinson and had only attended one non-graduate course at Princeton. McCormack, John (2010-09-12). "Citing 'Mental Anguish', Christine O'Donnell Sought $6.95 Million in Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Conservative Group". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
3. O'Donnell's write-in votes were not counted as part of the official tally of election results for candidates on the ballot, hence percentages summing to greater than 100. See "The Power of One Vote: State of Delaware 2006 Election Results" (PDF). Delaware Commissioner of Elections. pp. 2, 28ff. Retrieved 2010-02-26.

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External links

• Christine O'Donnell for U.S. Senate official campaign site
• Christine O'Donnell for U.S. Senate Facebook FanPage
• Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
• Profile at Vote Smart
• Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
• Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org (2006)
• Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org (2010)

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