Christine O'Donnell is counting on her third try being a charm and catapulting her to a win in a high-profile U.S. Senate race.
O'Donnell is two-time Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Delaware. In the 2008 general election, she had more than 140,500 votes in a losing effort against popular, long-time Democratic incumbent Joe Biden.
In 2006, O'Donnell came in last in a three-way Republican Senate primary. She ran as a write-in candidate in that year's general election against Republican Jan Ting and Democratic incumbent Tom Carper.
O'Donnell is known as a political commentator on television and for her work as a public relations and marketing consultant. She was born in Philadelphia and grew up in northern New Jersey.
O'Donnell was granted a degree by Fairleigh Dickinson University, in September 2010, seventeen years after she attended FDU's graduation ceremony. O'Donnell says an old college debt that had held up the degree was paid in 2003. She completed some additional coursework during the summer of 2010, before the degree was handed over.
O'Donnell is 41-years old and single. She lives in Wilmington.
