Carney speaks at a 9th grade level – Coons speaks at a 13th grade level – Carper speaks at a 9th grade level

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Fairly predicable. Coons is the erudite egghead in the bunch. Carney knows enough words to give a good pep talk to a JV football team and after 80 years in politics, Carper naturally speaks down to everyone. These are the findings of Sunlight Labs which crunched the numbers. Among their macro-findings, Congress talk more dumb this year.

Tuesday Open Thread [5.22.12]

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Former Philadelphia Phillie and Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling in recent years became a very public champion of conservative "small-government" politics. How ironic is it that then that when he launched a video game production company that two years ago set up shop in Rhode Island thanks to $75 million in state guaranteed loans. The least Schilling could have done then was thank the government rather bloviate about how government was evil. Well, two years later, because Schilling sucks as a businesman, his business isn't going so well, and this month Schilling's company 38 Studios missed a $1.1 million payment to the state. He's now asking for more taxpayer help. Oh, the irony.

Polling Report [5.22.12]

A new poll out of Texas keeps the state colored light red, as in Lean Romney. It shouldn't be as surprising as you think it is. Further along in this post, we will discuss Texas' future as a swing state (yes, it is coming). But not this year, as Texas will be won by Romney, no doubt about that.

President Obama on Why Bain is Relevant

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In case you can't watch the video, this is President Obama responding to a reporter's question at yesterday's NATO summit about why at criticism of Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital is relevant to the 2012 campaign. Click inside to read what he has to say.

Good News.

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In case you were wondering where El Som's Pre-game / Post-game posts are this week, well, they will not be appearing as the General Assembly is on a two week recess while the Joint Finance Committee meets to mark up the budget. And on that front, the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council (DEFAC) announced yesterday that the state's revenues are much more than expected.

Back to the Tracking Poll

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Starting today, we will once again be doing our tracking poll, a completely unscientific and non-random sampling of our readers who voluntarily chose to vote in the online poll. So with all those caveats, the poll will be simply for entertainment purposes only, or, if you will, informative only as to who DL readers will be voting for. Unlike our prior tracking where we asked only about your opinions on one candidate at a time, this time, and continuining on until the primary and general elections, we will be asking about one office at a time. Yes, horse racing time is here. We will start off with the County Executive Democratic Primary Race

Christine O’Donnell Got Hauled into Court Today.

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Christine O'Donnell is in a Delaware courtroom today for a civil suit involving an alleged debt that she and/or her campaign owes Attorney Jonathan Moseley, a former supporter and campaign worker of hers, who used to comment here quite regularly. O'Donnell, who will testify along with her treasurer and ex-campaign manager Matt Moran, calls Moseley's efforts "rogue by a needy person who wants to feel relevant."

From the “Be Careful What You Wish For” File: Tom Gordon Files

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When the year began, we were all hoping for one credible candidate to take out New Castle County Executive Paul Clark in the Democratic primary. We had two not well known and definitely underfunded candidates file, and then had one drop out, leaving Bill Shahan as Clark's opposition. Bill is a nice guy, and a good Democrat, but he has not been blowing the doors off this race so far. So guess who sensed an opportunity. Convicted criminal Tom Gordon, whose last stint at County Executive ended up in a corruption trial and a conviction. After weeks of rumors and one obvious poll, Tom Gordon has filed candidacy papers with the Department of Elections today.