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Wow. That's outstanding!

On Oct 29, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Alexander Snyder-Mackler <smacklera@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
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> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Alexander Snyder-Mackler <smacklera@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll send more on our poll later, but this came out from FDU just now. Our results were very similar.
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> "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
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> By SEAN O’SULLIVAN • The News Journal • October 5, 2010
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> In Delaware’s lower-ticket races, there is a dead heat in the competitions for state treasurer.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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 Rep. Colin Bonini, with each receiving support from 38 percent of those polled.
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> 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.
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> This was a higher approval rating than for Gov. Jack Markell --54 percent -- and Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del. -- 53 percent.
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> That same survey showed 81 percent had not heard of Biden’s challenger, Campbell.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Contact Sean O’sullivan at 324-2777 or sosullivan@delawareonline.com
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