Delaware

* Poverty rate: 13.9% * Poverty rate of residents under 18: 24% * Median household income: $48,582 The Sussex poverty rate is below the national average (15%), Sussex has high…

Last month, 42% of you had no idea who Ben Mobley was. (He is a Republican candidate for Insurance Commissioner). This month, that number drops to 30%, but that might not be good news for Ben, as his unfavorable rating increased from 34% to 43%. 26% have a favorable of the Republican, basically unchanged from last month's 24%.

Last month, 44% of our poll takers did not know who Sher Valenzeula was. After her official campaign announcement with running mate Jeff Cragg, that number has dropped to 13%, and in so doing, raised her favorable rating from 11% last month to 25% this month. That's the good news. The bad news is that her unfavorability rating has increased as well, from 48% to 61%.

Wingnut blather about tax cuts and "austerity" sounds good on the campaign trail, but as the Dover City Council's resident Teapartier, David Andersen, just found out, enacting brainless wingnut economic theories is much easier said than done.

And we're back. Republican Jeff Cragg got a little extra voting time in the spot light due to my hectic schedule. Let's see if it improved his poll standing at all. Last month, the presumptive Republican gubernatorial challenger garnered a 48% disapproval rating, a 24% "who the hell are you?" rating, and a 28% approval rating. A full month of exposure to the Delaware electorate, and an official launch of the Cragg-Valenzuela campaign has increased Cragg's disapproval rating to 51%, but also his approval rating, now at 33%. 15% are still in the dark as to who the hell he is.