Subject: FDU poll: Beau "most popular politician in the state"
From: "Alexander Snyder-Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "BB" <[email-masked]>, "ted kaufman" <[email-masked]>, "Acdonilon" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>, "Missy Owens" <[email-masked]>, "Valerie Biden Owens" <[email-masked]>, "Joe Rogalsky" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:20:48 -0400

I'll send more on our poll later, but this came out from FDU just now. Our
results were very similar.

"The poll also showed incumbent Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden with a
commanding 40-point lead over independent candidate Doug Campbell. The
Republican Party did not field a candidate for attorney general...*.The
survey also showed Biden is not only likely headed for re-election in
November, he also is the most popular politician in the state with 61
percent of those surveyed saying they had a very favorable or somewhat
favorable opinion of the son of Vice President Joe Biden.*"
Poll: State treasurer race even, auditor and AG races favor incumbents

By SEAN O’SULLIVAN • The News Journal • October 5, 2010

In Delaware’s lower-ticket races, there is a dead heat in the competitions
for state treasurer.

Incumbent State Auditor Thomas Wagner, a Republican, is leading his
Democratic challenger Richard Korn by 16 points, according to a Fairleigh
Dickinson University<http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101005/NEWS02/101005021/Poll-State-treasurer-race-even-auditor-and-AG-races-favor-incumbents#>PublicMind
poll released today.

The poll also showed incumbent Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden with a
commanding 40-point lead over independent candidate Doug Campbell. The
Republican Party did not field a candidate for attorney general.

The telephone poll of 801 randomly selected Delaware voters was conducted
from Sept. 27 to Oct. 3 and has a
margin<http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101005/NEWS02/101005021/Poll-State-treasurer-race-even-auditor-and-AG-races-favor-incumbents#>of
error of plus or minus 3.5 points.

On Wednesday, Professor Dan Cassino from PublicMind’s public opinion
research center will be in Delaware to release the results of a poll about
the special election for U.S.
Senate<http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101005/NEWS02/101005021/Poll-State-treasurer-race-even-auditor-and-AG-races-favor-incumbents#>between
Chris Coons and Christine O’Donnell. Cassino will present the poll
and answer questions at a news conference at The News Journal, 950 W. Basin
Rd., New Castle, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

In the race for state treasurer, Democrat Chip Flowers, who upset sitting
treasurer Velda Jones-Potter in the primary election, was even with his
Republican<http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101005/NEWS02/101005021/Poll-State-treasurer-race-even-auditor-and-AG-races-favor-incumbents#>challenger,
State Rep. Colin Bonini, with each receiving support from 38
percent of those polled.

The poll showed Flowers had stronger support upstate and among Democrats
while Bonini led downstate and among Republicans. The poll showed 21
percent, mainly voters who identified themselves as independent, are
undecided.

Poll director Peter Woolley, a professor of political science at Fairleigh
Dickinson, said he does not expect many of those undecided voters to break
for either Flowers or Bonini by election day. Instead, he said “these unsure
voters will resolve their dilemma by not casting a vote in this particular
race.”

In the race for state auditor, Wagner polled strongly over Korn with
Republicans and independents and is outpolling Korn upstate and downstate.
The poll showed 20 percent of voters, again dominated by independents, were
undecided.

The survey also showed Biden is not only likely headed for re-election in
November, he also is the most popular politician in the state with 61
percent of those surveyed saying they had a very favorable or somewhat
favorable opinion of the son of Vice President Joe Biden.

This was a higher approval rating than for Gov. Jack Markell --54 percent --
and Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del. -- 53 percent.

That same survey showed 81 percent had not heard of Biden’s challenger,
Campbell.

At the same time, Biden posted the highest unfavorable ratings, with 23
percent reporting a somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable opinion.
Markell and Democratic U.S.
House<http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101005/NEWS02/101005021/Poll-State-treasurer-race-even-auditor-and-AG-races-favor-incumbents#>candidate
John Carney followed Biden, with each receiving a 20 percent
unfavorable rating.

For information about the PublicMind poll, call (201) 692-7032. For
questions about the news conference, call Assistant Managing Editor Greg
Burton at (302) 324-2882.

*Contact Sean O’sullivan at 324-2777 or [email-masked]*

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Alexander Snyder-Mackler
(302) 598-867