Midterm reports

I'm not sure how many competitive candidates the Democrats have running in North Carolina, but the latest Elon poll certainly sounds good for their prospects:

More than 40 percent of respondents to last week's poll say their confidence in the Bush administration has decreased lately. The poll also revealed a gap between the number of people who said they voted Republican in last year's presidential election and those who said they will vote for the party in next year's congressional election.

And if it can happen in North Carolina, it can happen everywhere.

Meanwhile, Rasmussen's latest is good news for Maryland Democrats, with both Mfume and Cardin beating their Republican opponent for U.S. Senate and Democrats in the lead for the governorship as well.

And finally, it looks like Jon Corzine should pick acting Gov. Richard J. Codey to fill his Senate seat:

Codey was the choice of 43 percent of voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday. The runner-up, Rep. Robert Menendez, was a distant second, at 14 percent. Fellow Congressman Rob Andrews got 10 percent of the vote among those polled, followed by Rep. Frank Pallone, with 8 percent.

Like Corzine, all four are Democrats.

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In an early look at that 2006 U.S. Senate race, Codey would handily beat Tom Kean Jr., the Republican state senator who has declared his candidacy, by 55 percent to 32 percent, according to the survey. Other theoretical matchups have Menendez, Andrews, and Pallone all in close races with Kean Jr.

Things are looking good for Democrats all around.

*UPDATE* Hotline reports that Codey's not interested in the job and suggets that Robert Menedez is the favorite.