Delaware Liberal Tracking Poll Results — Beau Biden
The Attorney General was smart to pass up a run at the Senate in 2010, after having much of his first term as Attorney General taken up by his deployment to Iraq. Now, after more time and accomplishment in the job, particularly including his role in the 49 state mortgage settlement, he has a record, and it seems we like that record. He has a 70% approval rating, coming in second to Lt. Governor Matt Denn as one of the most popular politicians in Delaware.
Do you approve or disapprove of Attorney General Beau Biden’s job performance
Approve –36%
Strongly Approve –34%
Undecided / No Opinion / Meh — 9%
Disapprove –12%
Stronly Disapprove 4%Total Votes: 67 Started: February 22, 2012
Next up is Senator Coons. His recent statements on Iran may lower his approval rating, methinks.
When you are an unapologetic Democrat, as Beau Biden was during the mortgage settlement negotiations, people like it. I don’t get why Coons and Carney feel the need to run away from the popular (Democratic) positions so frequently.
I honest don’t get it. You don’t win any points among independents by demonstrating, time and again, that you don’t have any core values.
We are starting to get a pretty clear look at Coons and Carney’s core values.
Coons and Carney did well in the tracking poll too, suggesting it is the voters who don’t have any core values.
The middle voters are exactly those who don’t have “any core values”. And they are the most important because most of the time they decide elections. The “core value” voters vote GOP or Dem consistantly. As far as the mortgage settlement goes, Biden wasn’t doing anything that 48 other AGs didn’t do. He jumped on a bandwagon. And not running for his father’s senate seat was the dumbest thing this dumb politico never did. He could’ve beaten Castle, but was too vain and afraid to have a loss on his running record. As it was, Castle fell in the primary and the sacrificial lamb (Coons) took the seat easily. Carperbagger will get re-elected,
then turn over his seat midterm to your hero. Then we’ll be stuck with another Biden for another 30 years.
walt, Your Biden hatred aside – listen up and learn.
When thinking about “I” voters responding to “core values”, think in terms of authenticity. Since “I” voters, (we agree) don’t have strong policy preferences they, “vote for the person.” In other words, they vote for the guy who seems to be guided by some personal convictions.
That’s why Romney is sucking up the joint and that’s why it is confusing that John Carney is setting up such a wishy-washy “brand.”
“The middle voters are exactly those who don’t have “any core values”. ”
As an independent, I resent the blanket categorization of middle voters as those who have no core values. I have values. Most of them are very well defined and I attempt to live by them. What many folks incorrectly interpret as a lack of values is that is that independents tend not be binary or absolute in their thinking and do not believe they have all the answers. Jason, said it best, that “I”s tend to not have strong policy preferences and further, we tend to look more at outcomes and consequences of policies when deciding whether something is favorable or unfavorable to our society. Of course I am speaking only for myself and maybe most other independents think differently than I do.
So, yep, I vote for the individual, always. In short, I do not hold someone’s party affliation against them.
Yes, the middle voters vote for/against the person, but also for current issues. And ofcourse they have core “values”, we all do. I meant that they do not vote for or against a certain constant issue or set of issues (abortion, gun rights, welfare, tax issues, etc.); or constantly with a certain political party. And I am a middle voter, as far as that goes.