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POLL: Franken leads Ciresi
TPM Central ^ | 2/1/08 | Kleefeld

Posted on 02/01/2008 11:25:18 AM PST by pabianice

We're taking a step back from our focus on presidential race coverage to bring this piece of news: For the first time ever, Al Franken is ahead of Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) in an opinion poll.

The survey conducted by the University of Minnesota puts Franken at 43% to Coleman's 40%, hardly a good sign for the incumbent. Previous polls all gave Coleman the lead, initially a wide one when Franken declared, but eventually a much narrower one.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: mn2008
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1 posted on 02/01/2008 11:25:19 AM PST by pabianice
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The McCain factor at work.


2 posted on 02/01/2008 11:25:57 AM PST by B Knotts (If McCain wins, we lose.)
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With a better than 40% chance of the Dems capturing 60 Senate seats, who still wants to sit-out the election if McCain is the Repub nominee to “teach the Repubs a lesson”?


3 posted on 02/01/2008 11:26:50 AM PST by pabianice
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“Al Franken Ahead In Minnesota Senate Race”

His pal, “conservative” Ben Stein will be very happy.


4 posted on 02/01/2008 11:27:30 AM PST by EyeGuy
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What?


5 posted on 02/01/2008 11:27:32 AM PST by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW , Vote Hunter in the Primary)
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Minnesota must be full of ........wait a minute, A Prairie Home Companion comes from there.......nevermind.....
6 posted on 02/01/2008 11:27:32 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: pabianice

Well said!


7 posted on 02/01/2008 11:28:16 AM PST by AxelPaulsenJr (God Bless George W. Bush)
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To: pabianice

Hold your nose and vote for McAmnesty?....Not yet!


8 posted on 02/01/2008 11:28:21 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: pabianice
Does anyone know about the quality of the pollster involved?

And was it likely voters, just adults or what?

9 posted on 02/01/2008 11:28:32 AM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: pabianice

I’m not voting for McCain.


10 posted on 02/01/2008 11:28:37 AM PST by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" —Matthew 6:30)
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BS, same poll had Mondale beating Coleman by 5 points the day before the election in 2002. Coleman won by 5.

People simply got to stop mindlessly worshiping polling data. 9 months ago the only guy who could be Hillary in every poll was Rudy G. Where is he now?


11 posted on 02/01/2008 11:28:54 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Instead of "Swift Boaters", 2008 Democrats have "Short Bussers"-Freeper Sax)
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Apparently, they love “smearmongers” in Minnesota.
12 posted on 02/01/2008 11:28:56 AM PST by GOP_Lady (I'm a MITTen!)
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BS, same poll had Mondale beating Coleman by 5 points the day before the election in 2002. Coleman won by 5.

People simply got to stop mindlessly worshiping polling data. 9 months ago the only guy who could be Hillary in every poll was Rudy G. Where is he now?


13 posted on 02/01/2008 11:29:05 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Instead of "Swift Boaters", 2008 Democrats have "Short Bussers"-Freeper Sax)
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Unless Minnesota has lost its collective mind, Coleman wins.


14 posted on 02/01/2008 11:29:09 AM PST by Greg F (Romney appointed homosexual activists as judges in Massachusetts.)
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To: B Knotts

WTH? Has McCain become the new “illegal immigration”? Used to be, everything got blamed on the latter, now everything gets blamed on McCain!

What praytell is the logic behind your assertion?


15 posted on 02/01/2008 11:29:53 AM PST by dinoparty
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The dawning of the Liberal Age.
16 posted on 02/01/2008 11:30:11 AM PST by elizabetty (John McCain Hates Michael Reagan...........John McCain Hates Me, too. The feeling is mutual.)
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To hold onto the party it is essential to support the down-ticket candidates. Coleman isn’t perfect but given our choices here in Minnesota he is the best we can get. He is strong on WOT, against tge Law of the Sea Treaty, and pro-tex cuts, so I am supporting him all the way. Coleman can pull this out.


17 posted on 02/01/2008 11:30:16 AM PST by Parmenio
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This is the result of the Republican party embracing a pro-amnesty, pro-Global Warming, pro-Speech Control, anti-tax-cut, megalomaniacal Senator.
18 posted on 02/01/2008 11:30:49 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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should be pro-tax cuts.


19 posted on 02/01/2008 11:31:12 AM PST by Parmenio
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To: pabianice
So my choices are death or death by bunga-bunga if you know the old joke.

How about we pull a John Galt or start our own party?

I am concerned about 60 in the Senate, but then again the road they take us down will have other consequences, I'll leave it you you to figure it out....

20 posted on 02/01/2008 11:31:19 AM PST by taildragger (The Answer is Fred Thompson, I do not care what the question is.....)
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