Castle's crossover support

We're releasing our Delaware poll tomorrow and as was the case in the spring Mike Castle is doing well.

Obviously for a Republican to win statewide in a place like Delaware it requires winning a lot of crossover support and Castle is more well equipped to do that at this point than any other Senate candidate in the country for 2010. He's winning 20% of the vote from people who approve of the job Barack Obama is doing.

To put that number in context, look at it compared with how other Republican Senate candidates across the country are doing with people who like Obama:

State	Candidate	% of vote from Obama approvers
Delaware	Mike Castle	20 vs. Beau Biden
North Carolina	Richard Burr	9 vs. Elaine Marshall
Ohio	Rob Portman	9 vs. Lee Fisher
Arkansas	Gilbert Baker	9
Colorado	Ken Buck	7
Missouri	Roy Blunt	5
Wisconsin	Terrence Wall	2

Castle is getting more than twice as much crossover support as anyone else we've polled on in the last six months or so. That's a pretty remarkable stat, and it's why he's such a formidable candidate.