Subject: congrats on your brother
From: "Mike Manatos" <[email-masked]>
To: "Biden Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Biden Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:55:52 -0400

hope you are well.

Mike

"The survey also showed Biden...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 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 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 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 challenger, State Sen. 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 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