Dems Take Statewides Easily
As expected Carney (58.34%), Hall-Long (59.44%), Blunt-Rochester (55.52%), and Navarro (59.28%) swept effortlessly into office. Nobody cracked 60%, but neither did they break a sweat.
With the national outcome, I wonder if Copeland ever second-guessed his decision to sit out the statewides this year?
The real takeaway is the top line: Hillary got 53%, Rochester 55, Carney 58, BHL 59. So almost 10% of the people who voted for Carney did not vote for Hillary.
The non-stop anti-Clinton ads in the Philadelphia market were expressly aimed at keeping Clinton voters demoralized and it seems to have worked.
It is hard to image someone entering a DE voting booth and picking Carney and Rochester, but not Clinton. It is shocking actually. People are easily duped imbeciles.
BHL’s win might end up causing more harm than good!!
So BHL is the most popular statewide elected official, even after all of the trashing over the past four years.
Well, something is weird.
Carney = 248,402 58 %
BHL = 248,140 59 %
Seems that Carney had more votes but a smaller percentage. Probably a sign that fewer people voted in the LGs race.
The far more important point — the far bigger point spread — is between Clinton and the rest of the ticket. Feel free to explore the archives in search of a presidential candidate who underperformed the top of the statewide ticket by 5 percent. Good luck.
Anonymous. That can easily be explained by the lack of quality choices on a statewide ballot compared to the national one. Libertarian? You still had to choose either between Bethany and La Mar… Green? You still had to choose only between Bethany and La Mar. Republican? Again, between Bethany and La Mar, maybe you felt La Mar was not your better choice?
All that has to be thrown in with any group of Democrats who did not choose Clinton but voted Democratic down ballot. Making it impossible to analyze or to draw any conclusions, political or otherwise.
Delaware 2008:
Obama /Biden – 61.9
Biden Senate – 64
Castle – 61
Markell – 67.5
Denn – 61.7
KWS – 57
@kavips: That’s probably part of it, but not all of it. Trump outperformed Bonini by 18,000 votes, Reigle by 13,000. Hillary underperformed Carney by 13,000 votes. There, you don’t even have to do the math.
@2008?: In 2004, Kerry got 199,904 votes, 53.3%. Minner got 185,548, 50.9%. In 2000, Minner outperformed Gore by 11,000. So the swings aren’t uncommon, but they don’t always run in the same direction.
When the presidential candidate underperforms the rest of the statewide Democratic ticket, it’s a decent probability that those were split tickets.