Mike Castle's approval rating has plummeted

POLL: Christine O’Donnell Takes Lead Over Mike Castle in Delaware Senate Race

Monday, September 13, 2010
Levi Russell, Tea Party Express

(WILMINGTON, DE) - Confirming poll results from a Tea Party Express commissioned poll last week (which showed Mike Castle leading Christine O’Donnell by just a 43%-41% margin), a new poll shows Conservative Republican Christine O’Donnell continuing her surge in the Delaware U.S. Senate race.

A new Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released Sunday evening shows O’Donnell has in fact now surged into the lead over liberal Mike Castle.

The poll results were as follows:

Christine O’Donnell: 47%

Mike Castle: 44%

The poll also showed 55% of likely Republican voters think Mike Castle is ‘too liberal’ which echoes the message the Tea Party Express has delivered via hundreds of thousands of dollars in TV, radio, newspaper and online ads - as well as 80,000 mailers delivered to Delaware Republican households. You can see these ads by the Tea Party Express below.

Furthermore, among those Republicans who consider themselves part of the tea party movement (estimated by PPP to be 25%) O’Donnell leads Castle 79%-18%.

Among self-described “conservativesâ€