Urquhart Claims To Lead Rollins
Glen Urquhart, billing himself as the choice of true conservatives, found comfort in a poll released last week on a liberal blog — the Daily Kos. That poll, done by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, showed that Urquhart would fare just about as well as Michele Rollins — the GOP’s endorsed candidate — against Carney.
The article says Rollins doubts this poll. That’s probably why she’s unleashing her campaign ads now. I missed this one, Urquhart has an internal poll giving him a 5-7 point lead over Rollins.
So last Thursday, in his New Castle County campaign headquarters — the Newark home of John Stabley — he released results of a survey his campaign paid for that showed him leading Rollins by 5 to 7 percentage points in the primary. It showed, he said, that he can beat Rollins statewide, not just in Sussex County, by appealing to the Judeo-Christian values he says most Americans share.
Apparently Urquhart’s poll was a push poll.
Urquhart’s pollster — ccAdvertising — said it sent its questions by a voice-activated phone system to more than 16,000 Republican households. The full results of the survey were not released — much of it was meant for marketing purposes only, campaign staffers said — but several pointed questions were asked depending on whether the respondent favored Urquhart or Rollins.
The questions referred to donations Rollins made to now-Vice President Joe Biden during one of his re-election campaigns for the U.S. Senate and another to a political action committee (The Wish List) supporting female Republican candidates who would defend abortion as a woman’s choice. Calling her pro-abortion and “Heiress Rollins,” the questions linked Rollins to millions in bank bailout money while she was a director for Wilmington Trust Co., and said she made millions in the gambling industry.
Rollins response is also pretty amusing.
The questions made many people hang up the phone, Rollins said Monday.
Of course, Rollins hasn’t released any kind of internal polling showing she’s ahead. I find it hard to believe that with her warchest she doesn’t have any polling numbers. Rollins also seems pretty defensive in the article (go read to see her answers about donating to Joe Biden and her position on abortion), which still leaves the impression that Rollins is on the ropes and the Urquhart is surging.
Over on Glen Urquhart’s campaign website (LOL, Michele Rollins’s website is the first Google hit when you look for Urquhart on Google) he has a press release on the poll.
The statewide survey of registered Delaware Republican voters assessed the views of Republicans planning to vote in the September 14th Primary Election and had 16,803 participants.
You have to be kidding, 16K participants? Wow. I’d say that’s statistically significant if true. Anyway…
Brian McAllister of ccAdvertising stated, “In the race for Congress in Delaware, among registered Republicans, Glen Urquhart polls at 38.96%, a 7.01% lead over establishment candidate Michele Rollins, who polls at 31.95%. The undecided’s, who will determine the winner of this race, stand at 29.09%.”
In further exploration of the issues, the survey determined that 69.11% of respondents who do not intend to vote for Glen Urquhart would be more likely to trust Glen Urquhart over Michele Rollins on the issue of life; 65.61% would be more likely to trust Glen Urquhart over Michele Rollins to cut taxes and spending in Washington; and 73.54% would be more likely to vote for Glen Urquhart over Michele Rollins knowing that he is political outsider, small businessman and champion of Delaware’s family values.
Urquharts press release cites 2 polls, the other poll is none other than the PPP Poll:
The second poll by the Democrat polling company Public Policy Polling shows Rollins and Urquhart in a virtual tie when considering the opinion of a cross-section of Democrat, Republican and Independent Delaware voters at 32% – 30% respectively, with a margin of error of 4%.
*raised eyebrow* I’d like to see how that analysis was done.
Anyway, this sure does bring up some interesting dynamics for the general election. Until now Rollins-Castle and Urquhart-O’Donnell have been seen as “teams.” I had always assumed that Urquhart was trying to ride a bit on O’Donnell’s coattails since she’s better known because of her previous runs for office. That situation may be reversed. O’Donnell may be better known still, but she definitely wants his voters to come out and vote for her as well.
Castle, on the other hand, has to be a little nervous about sharing the top of the ticket with Glen “liberals are Nazis” Urquhart since Castle needs Democratic support to win his election. I’ll bet Urquhart has said critical things of Castle in the past as well. Would Castle and Urquhart be able to campaign together in a unity ticket?
Tags: DE-AL, Glen Urquhart, Michele Rollins
well – at least Rollins hasn’t publicly called “you liberal friends” nazis…..
lets make sure that youtube video is widly circulated….just in case
I have to think Urquhart’s appeal to “Judeo-Christian values” in TNJ story — as if Rollins is a Buddhist or a Zoroastrian — have to make him the early favorite for Tuesday’s Asshat of the Day.
Geezer – I already have today’s awardee, but it’s not Glen.
Why, you Judeo-Christian, you!
Ooohhh, I hope they go negative on each other. I am looking forward to the spectacle of a well-funded nasty primary campaign. Nothing beats millionaire-on-millionaire violence.
Yep, that’s me Geezer, the one who’s read the Bible in the original Aramaic.
Saw Urquhart’s campaign signs for the first time today (haven’t seen any Rollins signs in my little corner of B’wine Hundred). All but one were on right-of-way, including DELDOT ROW, which I think is a no-no.
Good signs, though. Red with a nice little stylized eagle head featuring both a star and stripes. Name quite visible.
I am starting to wonder just how engaged Rollins is in her own campaign. Her media $$’s had better work, or she really could lose. So far, just an AWFUL campaign.
I agree, Rollins seems to have a touch of the Bill Lee campaign style. Urquhart, however, is no Mike Protack. Urquhart seems to be out there working and from my far distance view, looks to be a decent campaigner.
Rollins 1st commercial is a real dud because she’s railing against bailouts, despite being a recipient. The Delaware Democratic party came out hard against Rollins’s commercial:
OUCH!
Go Katie!
MJ: My question to “Judeo-Christians” is “An eye for an eye, or turn the other cheek?”
Depends if you are more Judeo or more Christian. On
paperpapyrus at least.Good one.
El Som – lots of Urquhart signs down here in LSD. The only Miss Jamaica 1963 signs I’ve seen are the one in Greenwood (as opposed to about 50 Urquhart) and the huge ones in front of Grotto’s Grand Slam pizza place on Rte 1.
There’s a few Rollins signs in Greenville on Rt 52. And of course a monster sign in front of Grottos on Pennsylvania Ave. As if I needed another excuse to avoid Grotto’s really sorry ass pizza. Pizza that seems to get worse, really.
Gotta second MJ on that. My informal poll of Sussex yard signs is four or five to one Urquhart over Rollins.
If you’re ever down my way and want great pizza, go to Casa DiLeo. FANTASTIC!!!
Dominic Pulieri used to (and possibly still does) date Michelle Rollins after her husband John died. Ergo, every Grottos has a Rollins sign.
So why don’t we have a Grottos in the Dover Downs Hotel?
Better question: over the years, Dems have held many major functions, including JJ Day dinners, at Dover Downs. Why? (Please don’t say it’s the “Delaware Way.”)
Why don’t they print the Rollins campaign signs on Grotto pizza dough? It would last longer than the corefam signs (although the corefam would probably taste better with a little faux cheese and uninspired tomato sauce).
ya knoe, the fact corporations can now give freely to their congressional puppets makes it A LOT easier to know who to boycott.
It should be little surprise Glen is ahead of Michele. Take a look at the 2006 Senate race the parallels are there. Take O’Donnell out and Protack would have cruised past Ting, if you add Protack and O’Donnell you get a big majority of conservative vote. I worked on that race I know how it turned out.
Lee and Michele do have some similarities, some self appointed importance no one else shares but Urquhart is working as hard as Protack did and no one worked harder than Mike but Urquhart threw $500,000 in to the race and Protack barely broke $100,000. I know you guys hate Protack but given the baseball bat the GOP hit him with over and over he did okay.
Let’s see if Mike gets any Greenville high rollers this time and maybe he is on his way to County Council which is a total joke.
That sort of FU money is why Glen is in the race and Wade folded. Michele thinks $$$ equals people liking you and respecting you. Anyway, her ads suck. Her and John started small family businesses?
Maybe ask Michele which women from the GOP Winning Women campaigns over the last 8 years have won anything? I think it is zero and the former ED of Winning Women quit the GOP.
“Better question: over the years, Dems have held many major functions, including JJ Day dinners, at Dover Downs. Why?” Going back to the Brandywine Towne Center complex, all Rollins construction projects are built with UNION labor. Dover is the middle of the state and holding events at Dover Downs is a way for Dems to support those who support their union patrons. Yes it is the Delaware Way of strange bedfellows.
Well Mike, I mean Brandywine Pete, another great self-serving post. You can get every conservative vote in the state and have the honor of losing overwhelmingly. You concede the DL people hate you, and that the GOP hates you which probably equates to your good fortune to never have survived a primary just to be trounced in a general election. You just lost the vote for GOP region chairman, what makes you think that you can win a GOP primary with the same people voting?
Yes, and what has the Rollins empire done for the unions lately?
“Yes, and what has the Rollins empire done for the unions lately?” She paid her state taxes to support all of the union members in the General Assembly and Department of Labor.
There are a lot more Greenville-Centreville-Hockessin-Brandywine Republicans than “Brandywine Pete” would like to acknowledge. The ones I talk to might be kidding themselves about how easy a time Michelle will have in the primary, but there are a lot more of them out there than there are yahoo Republicans in Laurel, Long Neck and Bumblefuck. The Republicans who know where their bread is buttered — or, I guess, those who have butter on their bread — want nothing to do with Tea Partiers or those who cater to them.
Anvil, thanks for the hatred.
You could not be more wrong. I have worked in the Department of Elections, was a regional Chairman and I have been a State House candidate. I have worked in the statewide Clatworthy races and would call myself a conservative.
The GOP region chairman vote was simple, the region did not want a candidate being the Chairman and Mike Ramone put a pretty deep knife in Protack’s back that night. It had nothing to do with Protack or his ability. I cautioned him not to waste his time on the Region as the GOP leadership is a lost cause these days. If you equate the Mill Creek region participants as the Mill Creek GOP you have convinced the world you don’t know a thing about the GOP.
For what it is worth, who is the Mill Creek Chairman? Does anybody know or care?
To be sure some in the GOP do not like Mike but only because they want to orchestrate things and do not tolerate any upstarts unless they are millionaires. The same group who don’t like principled people like Mike who don’t kowtow have driven this party in a huge ditch. The group who gave O’Donnell the Senate convention nod in 2008 are torpedoing her now.
The primary will be this: I think Urquhart squeaks by Rollins and Castle wins by 15-18%.
By the way I was lit dropping for Richard Nixon in 1972 so I will take my knowledge against yours any day.
Rollins wins the primary by 4%. You can take that to the bank. Geezer is right. For all the bluster, this is a numbers game and the tbagz are the few, the loud, the (ultimately) irrelevant.
Check that. You know who is going to win increasingly ugly the Rollins/Urkle primary? John Carney.
“The same group who don’t like principled people like Mike who don’t kowtow have driven this party in a huge ditch.” It is a major grammatical error to put Mike and principled in the same sentence.
“By the way I was lit dropping for Richard Nixon in 1972 so I will take my knowledge against yours any day.” You must be so proud to have supported a lying, narcissistic POS. But then again, Mike, that sounds a lot like you.
Mike is “principled” mainly in his own mind, and perhaps yours. Many, many upstate Republicans consider him a mental case, because they are well aware of the “anonymous” blogosphere campaigns he has waged. They want no part of him, and they hold Urquhart in nearly equal contempt.
The “driven the party into a ditch” line is practically copyrighted by Protack; nobody but Mike and his few thousand minions preaches it, and there isn’t the slightest evidence that they could muster better general election vote totals, and much evidence that they would do somewhat worse. Consider that Mike for many years preached against Mike Castle as being the “leader” of the upstate Richie Riches, and for all those years Mike kept showing that moderation, not “conservative principles,” was the best way to elect a Republican in a state in which two Republicans (Russ Peterson and Bill Roth) are all well known for their strong stands on protecting the environment. They never put anti-regulation ahead of doing what was right, as your sort is all too willing to do at every turn.
By the way, if you were doing your Nixon campaigning in 1972 in Delaware you were on hand to screw up Russell Peterson’s campaign. Congratulations.
MJ – I concur on the sign tally.
In the Senate race, only in the last week have I seen any Castle signs, and they’re mostly on & around Lester real estate properties in Georgetown.
The grouping I see most often is O’Donnell, Urquhart and Bodenweiser. Hmm… down to defeat or up to victory?
St. Bodie Girl goes down as does Elanie Benes. Urquhart wins 50.3 to 49.7.
I think Nixon ran against a liberal named McGovern so Nixon was a better choice even though Nixon did a lot of Liberal things, wage and price controls etc.
I get belly full of laughter every time Left wing nuts like geezer know the ins and outs of the Republican party. Too bad you are soooo stupid, while Peterson was changing the commission style of Delaware government and the Coastal Zone act he forgot to watch the budget and by 1971 late he had a deficit and storm clouds on the horizon. He barely won his primary against Buckson and lost the general race on his own, Nixon won in a landslide.
Geezer must have his head up his butt because for way too long Protack defended Castle on this blog and within the party. Perhaps the former News Journal hack has forgotten O’Donnell popped on the scene in 2006 because Protack was not a real conservative.
La la land is full of wing nuts from the Left and so is the Delaware Psych Center.
Psst…Mike, you forgot the “driven the party into a ditch” line.
Hey Boys and Girls,
There are many Tea Party groups in the state so I don’t know how you say you know the numbers. The Castle support thing is true, the guy still supports him to this day.
The GOP is not in a ditch it is non existent in Delaware as a force for anything. Too young to know about Peterson or Nixon and anyone you non Mensa characters attack but must have their act together.
Carney wins? Can we hear some of the in your face attacks by Markell on Carney? Sounds like Carney comes up short.
This sounds more like one of the minions than Mike himself. Only the bile remains the same. How it galls them that, for all their empty boasting, they have never won anything. They are less relevant than the aborted foetuses that are the only things they know how to love.
I thought that yesterday was the first day you could post campaign signs on public land if you’re in a primary.
Oh Man. That comment from Geezer floats like a butterfly and stings like 10,000 white hot pokers.
miss – I believe you’re right. But nobody from the state ever enforces those.
I did see a large Castle sign go up down the road from me yesterday. Maybe they were waiting to follow the law. Imagine that!
I am at a private sector job something Liberals and Democrat loyalists would not understand do I don’t have much time but the simple truth is this. I know Mike pretty well and what you guys hate the most is he does not care for one second what you liberals think or say about anything and that is what bugs you so much. Not bile, he simply does not care while he supports a lot of your agenda such as unions, health care and the like.
The aborted fetus remark shows what a low rent nobody your supporters are. For the record Mike was screwed in 2006 by the so called pro life leaders because he would not support their agenda. I was in his office when one of the Delaware Right To Life leaders told him he was a ‘baby killer’ which is astonishing to say the least.
The comment above does not sting like hot pokers or float like a butterfly, it shows a total lack of class and brains.
Let me get to work to pay Obaama’s bills.
No, the comment shows how easily upset you are by the destruction of pre-humans — far more upset than by actual human suffering.
Mike Protack doesn’t bug liberals at all. His destruction of the Delaware Republican Party has helped Democrats immensely while doing nothing at all for the GOP, other than rendering it impotent and providing an early indication that the national party was degenerating into madness.
I’m quite sure you know Mike pretty well — from the first I suspected JO (those are his initial, not shorthand for jerk off) — which means you’re his closest minion. Very, very few people know Mike, because Mike is about as good at human relations as a robot would be, which is why he is now and will forever remain unelectable. Even a screwjack like Vance Phillips learned how to leash himself, but Mike has never been able to refrain from pissing on the Republican rug that once tied together the party’s whole “big tent.”
I am at a private sector job something Liberals and Democrat loyalists would not understand do I don’t have much time but the simple truth is this. I know Mike pretty well and what you guys hate the most is he does not care for one second what you liberals think or say about anything and that is what bugs you so much.
I beg someone to find something true in this statement.
“I am at a private sector job …”
Just wait until Obama unveils his master plan to take over the airline industry. Bwah-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!!!!
Apparently his *private sector job* includes massive sockpuppetry on blogs like this one. Brandywine Pete or whatever moniker you like needs to stick with one name or be gone.
Cass: Better to publicize the fact he’s a sock puppet than ban him entirely. As always, sunshine is the best insecticide.
It’s cool — just wanted to point out that he is pathetic enough to not even be able to claim minions>. It is one minion — with a bunch of blog names. And with all of the dishonesty around all of these blog names, he would be a very unreliable commenter — so engage at your risk.