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: Fresh off her victory in Delaware, GOP US Senate candidate
: Christine O'Donnell is riding a wave of campaign cash but also
: internet infamy, thanks in part to her controversial statements
: - most notably on masturbation - in the late 1990s on Bill
: Maher's "Politically Incorrect." On Friday, Maher
: released on his new HBO show, "Real Time," an unaired
: clip of O'Donnell admitting to a brief dalliance with
: witchcraft.
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: "I dabbled into witchcraft - I never joined a coven. But I
: did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who
: were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know
: what they told me they do," she said. "One of my first
: dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it.
: I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that,"
: she said. "We went to a movie and then had a midnight
: picnic on a satanic altar."
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: O'Donnell appeared on the political talk show on 22 different
: episodes, and Maher has said he will air a clip of O'Donnell
: every week until she agrees to appear on his show. "It's
: like a hostage crisis," Maher said. "Every week you
: don't show up, I'm going to throw another body out."
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: On Saturday O'Donnell cancelled two scheduled appearances on
: national Sunday news shows "Face the Nation" on CBS
: and "Fox News Sunday." Speaking to The Associated
: Press, campaign spokeswoman Diana Banister said that O'Donnell
: was returning to Delaware to attend church events in a key
: county.
:
: "Tomorrow the priorities are back in Delaware. Those are
: people who supported her, who were very helpful to her in the
: campaign, and she feels obligated to be there and thank
: them."
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: O'Donnell's outspokenness on conservative social values,
: particularly her support for abstinence and opposition to the
: use of condoms and masturbation, has set her apart from many
: prominent Tea Party candidates, who've primarily focused on
: economic issues.
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: O'Donnell told TV talk show host Phil Donahue in 2002 that
: "condoms will not protect you from AIDS." And in a
: 2006 appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor" she said
: efforts to promote condom use are "anti-human." She's
: also received new attention for comments she made in 1996 on
: MTV's "Sex in the '90s" in which she likened
: masturbation and pornography to adultery.
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: She appeared on all major TV network morning show programs on
: Wednesday, and has used attacks by her opponents, including
: Republican strategist Karl Rove, to win sympathy in many
: conservative circles.
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