Report: Castle to run for Senate

Wilmington News Journal columnist Ron Williams is so sure Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) is running for Senate that he’s willing to state it as fact.

“Castle will be the GOP Senate candidate” – that’s the sub-headline of an item in Williams’s Sunday column.

He goes on to say we should expect an announcement in the next month:

Castle is not yet talking, but there are a number of high-ranking Republican operatives who know Castle’s moods and inclinations, and they say hands down that he’s in for the seat now held by Ted Kaufman, Biden’s former chief of staff. Kaufman is stepping down in 2010.

If I owned a ranch, I’d bet it on a Castle candidacy.

For the record, I asked Castle for an update on Thursday. He didn’t seem too interested in talking about it, repeating that he was still leaning toward either the Senate or retirement and was unlikely to run for reelection to the House.