Delaware

DL Approval Ratings: Auditor Doesn’t Do His Job, and He Gets Low Ratings. Imagine that.

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DL Approval Ratings: Auditor Doesn’t Do His Job, and He Gets Low Ratings.   Imagine that.

64% of Delaware Liberal readers disapprove of Auditor Tom Wagner (R). 51% strongly disapprove of him. Only 28% approve. That he continues to get reelected will be one of the unanswerable mysteries of life. Kinda like how the Charcoal Pit is considered a good place to eat.

Here is the remaining schedule:

Wednesday — Treasurer Ken Simpler (R)
Thursday — Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart (D)
Friday — New Castle County Executive Tom Gordon (D)

Treasurer Simpler’s results should be interesting. He’s hasn’t really done much yet to approve or disapprove of, and he is not said anything overtly annoying or overly Republican yet.

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Wednesday Daily Delawhere [4.15.15]

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Beth.Shalom.Wilmington

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Tuesday Daily Delawhere [4.14.15]

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The old Christiana Inn, on Old Baltimore Pike in Christiana.

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DL Approval Ratings: Coons Rides High

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DL Approval Ratings: Coons Rides High

A senior elected official said to me at an event over the weekend that these Delaware Liberal polls are hurting the state of Delaware. He says staffers obsess over them, and that is distracting to the pressing state business that these staffers or employees must take of. This person said, somewhere a Social Security check is not being cut because there is a poll about John Carney.

So I apologize to the people of Delaware, but the polls must go on. To be honest, I was surprised how positive this poll was for Senator Coons, given his recent vacillation over the Iran Deal. To be clear, Senator, to side with the Republicans over the Iran Deal makes you one. You either are in the Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran caucus, or you are not. And voting for the Corker Bill means you want war, not a deal that will prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Regardless, 59% approve of Senator Coons’ job performance, 23% strongly. 38% disapprove.

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Monday Daily Delawhere [4.13.15]

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Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, near Delaware City.

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Happy Birthday Jason330.

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Our illustrious founder is a half a century old now. Jason has had some iconic moments, like using his bare chested torso as a petition, encouraging all to sign his body so as to lobby for open government back in the halcyon days of Progressives in Delaware. I however cannot find a picture of that. But here is a picture of Jason celebrating in front of a disgruntled conservative’s sign downstate right after President Obama’s election in 2008.

Happy Birthday Jason. Here’s to many many more.

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Sunday Daily Delawhere [4.12.15]

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Photo by Kristopher Arnold on Flickr.

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Saturday Daily Delawhere [4.11.15]

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Saturday Daily Delawhere [4.11.15]

Rockwood Park by Van Luvender on Flickr.

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Friday Open Thread [4.10.15]

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Friday Open Thread [4.10.15]

Hillary is running. She will formally announce her presidential candidacy via social media at Noon EST Monday, while she’s en route to Iowa to begin a brisk early-states tour. Thus, no tedious announcement that she is thinking of running, and then setting up an exploratory committee, and then officially announcing. She is just announcing and then jumping right into campaigning. That is good.

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Draft Biden

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ridinwithbiden

This post is worth it just for the above picture. But anyway there is apparently a Draft Biden movement, I suppose apart from the Plan B movement waiting in the wings that the Vice President and Delaware Democrats already have fermenting just beneath the surface. Indeed, little birdies have told me that Delaware Democrats, whether they are official staff, in leadership positions or prominent rank-and-file have been told that when it comes to the Presidential race, they are not for Hillary, they are for Joe. At least that is what they are supposed to say publicly. But I digress.

Organizers behind the Draft Biden 2016 super-PAC have launched an online store around a “I’m ridin’ with Biden” logo depicting the vice president sporting aviator sunglasses while behind the wheel. […] The group has 20,000 signatures toward their goal of 30,000 by the end of April for an online petition urging Biden to launch a 2016 White House bid, they said. They added that they plan to organize in early-voting Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

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DL Approval Ratings: Negative for Carperdyne Model 3000X

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DL Approval Ratings: Negative for Carperdyne Model 3000X

29% strongly disapprove. 26% somewhat disapprove. That is good enough for an overall majority (55%) disapproving of your job performance, John Carney. And the reason you’ve got that here is because you have our conservative readers voting against you because you are a Democrat. And you’ve got liberals voting against you because you are Carperdyne Model 3000X. Your programming has you continuing to try to find “common” ground with Republicans, which to them means you cave and they accept. You vote with theRepublicans against a Democratic budget and you or any elected Delaware Democratic officials dares wonder why the rank and file Democrats don’t like you.

Here’s a clue. You ran as a Democrat. You were elected as a Democrat. You better vote as a Democrat. You better act like one too. All the time. Or you won’t be around much longer.

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Friday Daily Delawhere [4.10.15]

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Friday Daily Delawhere [4.10.15]

Cochran Grange, on Middletown Warwick Road in Middletown. The Greek Revival house was built in 1840. It was the home of former Governor John P. Cochran, who served as the 43rd Governor of Delaware from 1875 to 1879.

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DL Approval Ratings for Matt Denn: Most Popular Statewide Dem?

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DL Approval Ratings for Matt Denn: Most Popular Statewide Dem?

54% of our readership strongly approves of Attorney General Matt Denn. Another 15% somewhat approve, bringing his overall approval rating to 69%, which may be the highest this time around statewide for Democrat. 19% disapprove. Last year, Beau Biden proved pretty popular, besting the then Lt. Governor. I wonder if that will change this time around. And yes, I will ask a poll question on the favorability of the former Attorney General and potential Gubernatorial candidate next week.

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