Delaware Senate race Biden’s seat – Mike Castle 56% Chris Coons 27%

Joe-Biden_dumbestI’ve always been under the assumption Delaware is your typical north-eastern blue state. I mean, this state was represented by the moron Joe Biden for over 20 years and all. So imagine my surprise to read the latest Rasmussen polling info showing Republican Mike Castle ahead of New Castle County Executive Chris Coons 56% to 27%. Maybe this is why Biden Jr. decided not to run for the Senate.

The survey was taken Monday night following the announcement by Biden, the state’s Democratic attorney general, that he will not run for the Senate. In October, Castle led Biden 47% to 42% in a hypothetical match-up for the seat Biden’s father, now the vice president, held for 36 years.

The younger Biden’s decision, coming just after the upset GOP Senate win in Massachusetts, still took Democrats by surprise, particularly in a state that has trended blue in recent years. Coons’ name is the only one that has surfaced so far as a possible replacement, although he has yet to formally announce his candidacy. Ted Kaufman, appointed by the governor to the elder Biden’s seat following the November 2008 election, reiterated yesterday that he has no intention of seeking a full Senate term.

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Castle, who is an announced candidate, holds virtually identical two-to-one leads over Coons among both male and female voters.

While 86% of Republicans support Castle, just 49%of Delaware Democrats back Coons. Thirty-one percent (31%) of Democrats favor the moderate GOP candidate. Sixty-one percent (61%) of the state’s unaffiliated voters choose Castle at this point.

Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Delaware voters have a very favorable opinion of Castle, while just seven percent (7%) view him very unfavorably. Only nine percent (9%) have no opinion of the Republican hopeful who has served as governor and lieutenant governor and been the state’s only congressman since 1993.

Coons is viewed very favorably by 10% and very unfavorably by nine percent (9%). But 23% don’t know enough about Coons to venture even a soft favorable or unfavorable opinion of him.

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January 26, 2010 · Filed Under 2010 Elections


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