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"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