Toplines for Delaware Political Polling!
Following up on my post from Saturday, we now have (courtesy of Mr. Paul Brewer) the toplines of The University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication National Agenda Poll from September 2013. (pdf) I’ve asked Mr. Brewer about their long term plans for this poll and it looks like this might be a once a year event — dependent upon available resources. But Fresh Delaware polling! Yay!
So here’s the Presidential tallies:
Obama, Biden and Hillary are pretty much around the same levels of approval and disapproval here. Chris Christie does pretty well here, too, although he isn’t knocking it out of the park. Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio perform worse on this scale, although they both have pretty high unknown numbers vs the others.
The Delaware tallies:
We’ve already talked about how eccentric this list looks.
There’s lots more at the pdf link above, but if you go by this poll, the two largest parties in the State of Delaware are the Democrats (40%) and Independents (34%), with the GOP bringing up the rear at 22%. Independents, Other Party, Don’t Know Party lean Democratic 33%, Republican 30% and other (or don’t know) 37%. Which looks like if the Democrats can keep their members and keep their part of the Independents, Delaware will be pretty Blue for awhile. Not that this is something to get complacent about.
I was VERY interested in the questions asking how closely respondents followed news about political figures and events in Washington and Delaware. 33% (Washington) and 41% (Delaware) don’t follow this news all that closely, which points to a reason why the unknown or can’t rate numbers are so high for some items here. I wonder if this isn’t a reflection on the hollowing out of local news here too.
Tea Party unfavorables are at 42%. Tee Hee.
Delawareans’ priorities for problems to be fixed? The highest priority at 29% was Jobs/Employment/Wages, with 11% for Education/School Funding coming in second. Taxes came in last at 1%. 1%, people.
There’s other questions re: Gay Marriage, Restoring Felon’s right to vote, ID for voting, absentee voting.
So take a look at those complete toplines and tell us what you think.
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This seems like real news to me:
Too bad we don’t have an actual newspaper in this state.
The CRI’s large donors are being robbed.
I had an email exchange with Mr. Brewer (who has patiently answered everything) and he said that the list of Delawareans that they choose to poll wasn’t about the Governor’s race — it was mostly about assessing the Delaware Congressional delegation and some of the offices up for re-election next year. He said that they weren’t thinking much further ahead than that. One other thing, their ability to poll is limited by the money they can spend (duh), and this 15 minute poll is pretty spendy — “$30-$40K for a 15-minute telephone survey that uses probability sampling”. Right now they are dependent on foundations and other sources of funding to do this, so that’s why we may only see this on a yearly basis (if that).
I hate the term “Independent,” for Wolfgang reasons. It confuses voters and allows idiots Ayotte to claim they have more supporters than they Protack do. It’s too late now, but the GA should have barred any party from using that Christopher word in their name.
“I hate the term “Independent,” for Wolfgang reasons.”
That’s exactly why I kinda like it.
The numbers create an interesting prisoners dilemma for individual GOP office holders. Taking a whack at an elected official with an over 60 percent approval rating is bound to add to the attackers’ own negatives if they represent any moderate voters at all.
Because a Democratic opponent who runs on “I agree with the people you like who have positions you think are popular” has a pretty good head start.
I keep seeing polls that show that Americans’ greatest priorities are jobs — yet we have an entire Congressional delegation not doing anything about this. They are, however, working on lesser priorities like taxes and deficits. It really makes me mad.
Did you note only 25% of those polled described themselves as some what or very liberal.?
And yet when liberal policies are polled, they absolutely crush conservative policies. It speaks to the inaccuracies involved in labeling people.
It speaks to how well conservatives have demonized the word “liberal” and how Democrats have been hiding from the word.
Fixed that for you, Jason.
Cassandra, you nailed it! Now we call ourselves progressive because liberal has been turned into a dirty word. So glad Jason had the moxie to call this blog DE-LIBERAL!
I thought that point might be over his head. I’m trying to be kinder to our wingnuts.