NOT A SPOILER AFTER ALL: The Hill: Rep. Castle Says No To Write-In Bid. “A write-in bid would have been an uphill battle for Castle and a Rasmussen poll from earlier in the week suggested such an effort might have only given O’Donnell a better shot at defeating Coons in November. The poll had Coons ahead of O’Donnell 49-40 percent with Castle garnering 5 percent as a write-in.”