Biden Not Looking So Delmarvalous
October 26, 2006 at 8:30 am
Forget everything you were taught about natural law and the time-space continuum. Is it – shudder — possible for someone named Biden to lose in Delaware?
Consider this Wilmington News Journal shocker:
The Delaware Attorney General’s race is in a statistical dead heat, with nearly one-fourth of voters still undecided, an independent poll released today shows.
The poll by Fairleigh Dickinson (N.J.) University’s PublicMind institute found 35 percent of voters support Republican Ferris Wharton, and 34 percent pick Democrat Beau Biden.
That’s right, Beau Biden. As in, son of.
Which makes this fascinating:
Pollsters also found it significant that while Biden, the son of Delaware’s senior U.S. senator Joe Biden, held a wide edge in name recognition — 89 percent to 57 percent — the race was virtually deadlocked.
Fabio said,
October 26, 2006 @ 10:25 am
The name “Beau,” in French, means “handsome.” A man named Handsome Biden makes me feel, well, like a romantic.
Fabio Hair said,
October 26, 2006 @ 5:35 pm
Does “Beau” take after “Joe” like this:
http://www.coloderm.com/barbie.jpg
Elroy Jetson (not Fabio) said,
October 26, 2006 @ 8:44 pm
If Beau’s Dad would just stay off the Sunday talk shows for the next two weeks, he has got it in the bag.
Pat Patterson said,
October 26, 2006 @ 8:46 pm
Does Beau get the hair plugs under the family trust?
M. Simon said,
October 26, 2006 @ 11:11 pm
I like hansome.
Call Biden a cab.
He needs a ride home.
Shaun said,
October 27, 2006 @ 7:02 am
Ah, Mr. M, how little ye knoweth about Delaware voters.
They are a ticket splitting bunch to begin with and not too many years ago elected a governor and lieutenant governor from different parties.
Biden Sr. came out of nowhere to knock off a longtime U.S. senator whom voters believed had become too complacent.
I’m a registered Democrat in Delaware, but vote for more Republicans most elections.
It comes as no surprise that Biden Jr. doesn’t get a free pass.
James Wilkinson said,
October 27, 2006 @ 5:45 pm
I’m from Wilmington, Delaware and am going to be voting for Ferris Wharton in two weeks. Why? I am so utterly tired of these political dynasties like the Clintons, Gores, Kennedys and Bushes. It’s time for a change, and we shouldn’t just hand the AG spot to Beau so he can replace his dad in a few years in the Senate.
Sorry, but the fact he failed the bar so many times doesn’t inspire very much confidence in me. Secondly, Wharton got Capano. There was no body ever found, but he still got the dirty little SOB. For that alone, I have far more confidence in Wharton than Biden.
Finally, I am still pissed at Joe. He was one of the engineers of that crock of shit bankrupcy bill that passed through Congress a little while back. Since he’s not running this year, it’d be nice to at least knock off his son for that little favor he paid to MBNA.
FirstState said,
October 27, 2006 @ 8:01 pm
ExMo — Looking at the details of the poll, of the 34% of voters who said they had read “a great deal” about the race, Wharton leads 62-32. The more people learn, the better it looks for Wharton. It’s gonna be a squeaker.