New Poll Has Coons By 21%
The News Journal is doing the announcement now. The toplines were Coons 57%, O’Donnell 36%. I’ll post the analysis when it’s available.
Deep thought: Does this mean prayer doesn’t work?
Deeper thought: Will Christine O’Donnell actually do worse than she did in 2008?
**UPDATE**
Here’s the NJ’s description of the poll results:
The survey, the second conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson (N.J.) University’s PublicMind research group in the last month, found that Coons has increased his advantage by 4 points over his GOP foe. O’Donnell stunned pundits and the party establishment Sept. 14 by defeating nine-term U.S. Rep. Mike Castle in the primary.
The latest poll by O’Donnell’s alma mater, conducted over a six-day period ending Tuesday, surveyed 797 likely voters statewide to find that 57 percent favor Coons, compared with 36 percent for O’Donnell. Five percent were undecided and 1 percent refused to state a preference. The poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percent.
Also, her unfavorables are very high:
In the four weeks since Fairleigh Dickinson’s first poll, her unfavorable ratings have risen from 48 percent to 54 percent in the PublicMind polls. Her “very unfavorable’’ ratings are now at 44 percent — a 7 percent increase.
As we suspected, the public is not getting fonder of Christine O’Donnell with more exposure. At least one good thing came out – FDU is not seeing an “intensity gap” in Delaware. I think we might need to start talking about coattails – can the Senate race bring out Democrats that may put Democrats over the top in some close state races?
Tags: Chris Coons, Christine O'Donnell, DE-Sen
Delaware’s best hope is at the end, this quote from Cassino:
“It’s not that she’s a bad candidate…. She’s running in absolutely the wrong place. If she were in Kentucky or Alaska, she’d be winning.’’
Starting next week, we can pray for whatever state she moves to.
It’s a pity that this poll probably doesn’t take in the public’s reaction to O’Donnell’s thuggish actions at WDEL. If it did, I bet that the percentage spread will be even greater.
I hope Coons trounces O’Donnell on Election Day. I want her to become so discouraged about her prospects in DE that she leaves the state for good.
They all need a good trouncing: O’Donnell, Urquhart, Bonini, Wagner.
In light of these poll results, our enemy is not the “enthusiasm gap”; rather, it is complacency.
We cannot become overconfident. In the Senate race, Coons should be aiming to top 60 percent. That will add strength down the ticket.
My guess is that she will start campaigning for Carper’s seat immediately so she can keep paying herself a salary from her current fund raising and pay her legal bills.
It would fall to the Coons voters to keep him in line come Wednesday 11/03. Obama got loose and continued too many mistakes of his predecessor. Coons should be like Kaufman, but a little less Biden.
Apparently there are more results that will be released tomorrow. I wonder what we’ll see in U.S. House, Treasurer and Auditor?
Perhaps contempt for O’Donnell will cause many Dems to show up at the polls and will have a beneficial effect for the down ticket Dem candidates. Hope so at least.
All RIGHT! If you are not going to DC on Saturday you can canvass or work the phones to be sure our people turn out and turn out strong.
I’ve been listening to “I” voters for the past month on the phones and I haven’t detected any wave of support for COD. Those that are supporting her seem to fall into the cranky old man category. Clueless, angry, bitter, and mean to our callers. But, thankfully, they haven’t been many. I’m just guessing, but I feel like it is less than 20% of the “I” voters we’ve talked to.
21 points isn’t enough IMO, I want Coons to beat her by 40. Then I want the FEC and the AG to finally do their job and investigate her, from 2006 to this current campaign. She can run against Carper from a federal prison.
“21 points isn’t enough”
Couldn’t agree more – would love to have a statement that would kill any thought of her ever running again… 70/30 would do it…
Coons needs our votes, for sure. Sestak needs our GOTV even more. Please consider crossing state lines for moral purposes.
The Philadelphia machine has FINALLY cranked up for Sestak. He gets the 400,000 votes he needs, plus the trending blue suburbs and he wins! Toomey is toast.
Yahn. This race was over on September 15th.
Mike Castle would have been the next U.S. Senator.
What is the big deal???? Is anyone really surprised??? The O’donnell negatives are thru the roof.
Don’t count on it, Auntie Dem. Now is not the time to be complacent!
I’m with Joey Cassanova. We need more muscular democrats not a bunch of whining library card carrying egg-heads.
She should move to AL or MS where they’d love her.
See how she does in Sussex County before you sell her South. She almost beat Joe the Bum down here two years ago.
Coons leads in Sussex 47% to 45% according to the poll.
sure – she could win sussex – but we’re not all stupid wing-nut inbreds down here
alot of us will vote for Coons
however – that said – she could win sussex – the west sussex crowd has a history of voting for loosers – but winning sussex is NOT winning Delaware and she is goona loose
leaving the tea baggin nut jobs in sussex sore loosers….again..
you would think that they could figure it out by now???