Republican Rep. Michael N. Castle has a 21-point lead over New Castle County executive Chris Coons in this year's Senate race in Delaware, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll taken Feb. 22.
That's no surprise given how often Castle has run statewide.
Though Delaware has a Democratic lean, 65 percent of the 500 likely
voters surveyed said that they had either a very favorable or somewhat
favorable impression of the GOP's Castle, a former governor and party
centrist who since 1993 has represented the state's at-large
congressional district. His unfavorable rating is 30 percent.
Democrat Coons, the top executive in Delaware's most populous
county, had a favorable rating of 43 percent and an unfavorable rating
of 35 percent. Slightly more than one in five respondents said that
they couldn't render an opinion about Coons.
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