Voters say Delaware Is on the Right Track

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According to the most recent survey results from Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind, a majority of Delaware's likely voters (56%) say the state is headed in the right direction while only a quarter (28%) say the state is on the wrong track.  The belief that Delaware is doing well is a bipartisan one, as a majority of Democrats (58%) and Republicans (57%) agree.

Half of likely voters (50%) have a favorable opinion of Governor Ruth Ann Minner, and she maintains a 5:4 ratio of favorable to unfavorable opinion, unchanged since PublicMind's previous survey conducted in September.  However, Minner does much better among women (56%) than among men (44%).  Her favorable to unfavorable ratio among women is close to 2:1 but is just 1:1 among men.

A majority of likely voters (57%) approve of the job Minner is doing as governor, while 37% disapprove. Majorities of both Democrats (63%) and Republicans (51%) approve of her performance and she does almost as well downstate in Kent and Sussex counties as she does in Newcastle.

“Governors of Delaware historically have remarkable cross-over appeal,” said Peter J. Woolley, a professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University and director of the poll. “Now if they could bottle that and sell it in other states, they'd be rich and other states would be happier.”

The PublicMind poll of 502 randomly selected likely voters statewide was conducted by telephone from October 18 through October 24 and has a margin of error of +/- 4.4 percentage points.

Contacts:

Contacts: Peter Woolley 973.670.3239; Dan Cassino 973.896.7072

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