Subject: new FDU poll -- Beau up almost 40
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: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:28:44 -0400

I'm in a mtg, so can't see much more. Margin is about the same as they had
for us a month ago. Carney up 17, too. Link:
http://publicmind.fdu.edu/carney/

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Alexander Snyder-Mackler <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> 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) 598-8678
>

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