The Delaware Liberal Tracking Poll

You may have noticed in the center column of the site, we have a poll question regarding the job performance of Governor Markell. Currently, the Governor has a 69% approval rating (27% approve, 42% strongly approve), and a 22% disapproval rating (17% disapprove, 5% strongly). And 9% of you either don’t care, don’t know or are “meh” when it comes to the Governor.

Now, an internet poll is in no way accurate (although, real polls of the Governor’s job performance have similar findings, with approval in the 60’s). We are not dealing with a random sample here. And the sample size is way too small (64 people at last count). Still, I thought it would be fun to have a new tracking poll feature each day that polls the politically motivated and passionate in Delaware. Each day of the week we will poll on a different office holder or candidate.

The schedule will vary week to week, but we will poll most often on the candidates up for election or reelection this year. And all you have to do is register your opinion with your vote. Each day, the poll on a specific official or candidate will be open on the front page for 24 hours, from 7:30 am to 7:30 am, and I will post the results immediately at 8 am after the polls “closed” on a particular candidate. Now, I am sure you are thinking it will be easy to game this poll. Well, not really. Votes are recorded by IP Address, so once you vote on the particular poll, you cannot vote again unless you are using another computer with a different IP Address. And if you do that, well, you’re a loser.

Here is next week’s schedule:

Monday – Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart (D)

Tuesday – Lt. Governor Matt Denn (D)

Wednesday – Senator Tom Carper (D)

Thursday – Congressman John Carney (D)

Friday – New Castle County Executive Paul Clark (D)