From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And here's Russ Murphy, founder of the Delaware 912 Patriots at Christine O'Donnell's Victory Rally.

Hello, Patriots.

How are we doing now?

I guess most of you all know who Carl Rove is.

About a year ago, Carl Rove came to Delaware for a Republican thing,

and he asked for a private meeting with the Tea Party groups, the grassroots groups,

and he tried to convince us how we needed to get behind the candidate that was electable.

And I said, sir, would all do respect.

No one is going to tell us how to take care of business.

That is the people.

And you have spoken.

Thank you.

There's a word that's overused every political season, and I'm going to use it again.

Narrative. What is the prevailing narrative? The answer is usually determined by pundits and

politicians after testing the political wind, like Carl Rove, speaking to Fox's Sean Hannity about O'Donnell

on election night. It does conservatives little good to support candidates who, at the end of the day, while

they may be conservative in their public statements, do not evince the characteristics

of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that the voters are looking for.

Rove knows how to count votes, and polls suggest that roughly 25% of Americans

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