Rachel Maddow's Search For Christine O'Donnell in Delaware Comes Up Empty (VIDEO)

Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell has been making headlines in recent weeks for her history of bizarre statements and positions. Responding to the heavy media scrutiny, O'Donnell vowed to stop doing national press so she could focus on local Delaware issues and voters. But as Rachel Maddow discovered when she took her show (weekdays, 9 PM on MSNBC) on a field trip to Delaware, O'Donnell appears to have gone underground even there.

Maddow sent her producers to O'Donnell's campaign headquarters, but their efforts to snag an interview with the unusual candidate were rebuffed as "unacceptable" by a campaign staffer once the producers revealed they were representing 'The Rachel Maddow Show.'

"'That's unacceptable' was his response to you saying the name of the show," Maddow repeated back to her producer, upon hearing the bad news.

"Yup," said the producer. "And then he said that you have been classless (toward O'Donnell.)"

O'Donnell might be confused about evolution, but at least she has hired people smart enough to realize that O'Donnell probably wouldn't have come out of an interview with Maddow looking good.