Delaware

No details yet, but it definitely wasn't electrical in nature. Sad, sad news.

His campaign website is not up yet (though he has a Twitter account up and running), but he's got supporters. The Rev. Christopher Bullock of the Canaan Baptish Church in Wilmington leads civic activist Bill Dunn and Renee Taschner, 46% to 31% to 23%, respectively.

I apologize for that headline. It is so very wrong. But that is what our St. Pauli Girl is doing, primarying Senator Joe Booth (R) as a Teabagger. This will be a rematch, as Bodenweiser challenged Senator Booth in 2010 in Booth's first non-special election as an incumbent. Booth won by only 120 votes, or 51% to 49%.

For real this time. And by that I mean, it was a real poll, not a push poll from a union on behalf of Tom Gordon. The pollster asked my opinion on a host of issues facing New Castle County, and also asked me what I thought was the most important issue facing the county. I answered "development." I was asked my opinion of Tom Gordon. I answered unfavorable because I consider him a criminal. Then I was asked my opinion of Paul Clark, and I said I wanted to answer undecided, but was told my only two options now were favorable or unfavorable. So I said unfavorable due to my concerns over his ethics. I was then asked if the election were held today, who would be getting my vote, and the choices were Clark, Gordon, Shahan or undecided. I answered Shahan.

I will give Tom Gordon credit.... he has minions who follow his every edict, and those minions are pretty internet savy.

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.

Our own El Somnambulo will be live on the Al Mascitti Show this morning at 10 on 1150 AM, WDEL. Use this thread to talk about what they talk about.

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.

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