Any poll of races in Delaware is gold for political junkies like myself. Just because they are so rare. So I must digest the results and mull over them a bit, but here are the headlines so far:
- Governor Minner has a 38% approval rating. Nearly 49% of the state disapproves of the job she has done.
- 49% of Delawareans believe the state is on the wrong track, compared with 42% who believe the state is on the right track.
- Delawareans favor Obama over McCain 56%-36%.
- 81% of Delawareans say the country is on the wrong track.
- 70% of First Staters disapprove of the way President Bush is handling his job.
- A majority in Delaware say they are pro-choice on the issue of abortion.
- 80% of Delaware Democrats support Obama.
- Delawareans have a favorable opinion of Biden by a similar margin (65%-25%).
- Delaware Republicans have an unfavorable view of Biden (58%-30%) and a favorable view of Palin (78%-7%).
- Nearly three out of four Delawareans (73%) say Biden was a good pick for vice president but that number declines to 64% when asked whether he would make a good president. Even so, when asked the same question a year ago (Oct. 2007), Delaware voters split evenly, with 41% saying he’d make a good president and 41% saying he wouldn’t.
- Three out of five Delaware Republicans think Palin would make a good president.
- The Fairleigh Dickinson University poll includes 601 randomly selected likely voters statewide in Delaware. The survey was conducted by telephone from September 17 through September 21 and has a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points.