Posted on 05/22/2013 2:55:49 AM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001
Minnesota U.S. Sen. Al Franken leads all potential GOP opponents by comfortable double-digit margins, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released Tuesday. Among those tested by the Democratic polling firm was U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, who he leads 55-38, a 17 point margin. Franken leads conservative talk show host Jason Lewis by the same 17 point margin (54-37), as well as state Sen. Julianne Ortman (52-35). Narrowing the gap slightly against the first-term senator were businessman Mike McFadden and Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek, who came within 15 points apiece (both at 51-36). Sen. Julie Rosen trailed by 16 points (52-36). Overall, Franken weighed in with a 51 percent approval rating, while 42 of voters disapprove. (His approval rating is 6 points better than President Obama’s in the state). One of the reasons for Franken’s commanding lead in the early going is the low-profile of the potential GOP field. That is actually a sign of hope for the Republicans. “Because of the low profile of the potential GOP candidates they do have a good amount of room to grow against Franken,” the pollsters concluded, “although he's certainly a clear favorite at any rate.”
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Minnesota is just Massachusettes without the clam chowdah!
That's what they said about states like MT, MO, ND, WI in 2012. Yet we managed to shoot ourselves in the foot in too many of them.
The low-info voters (most of ‘em) have never heard of any of the potential opponents, so of course Franken beats them in a poll.
For that very reason it will be hard to defeat him.
At its height in the 20's and 30's the party's victorious winners included 3 governors, 3 U.S. senators, 8 U.S. congressmen and a majority in the Minnesota state legislature.
In 1944 Hubert Horatio Humphrey worked to merge the party with the state's Democrat party, forming what is today the Minnesota Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party.
Many Minnesota voters are descendents of Swedish immigrants....and they positively LOVE that European/Swedish/socialistic type of government as much as they love meatballs with gravy.
Leni
I believe there is NO Democrat who will be 100% safe after the public’s first contact with Obamacare.
MT and ND were both very close, and could easily have gone the other way. I think we could have won MT and ND last year by “nationalizing” those elections, i.e., by sending in Paul Ryan to campaign with our candidates.
WI - Tommy Thompson lost, but so did Romney-Ryan. Same thing in quite a few other purple states.
MO - Our candidate wasn’t up to it. Ditto IN.
2014 is a midterm election, with a different turnout model. The Obama Administration is in its second term and voters tend to grow tired of the ruling party. The odds are good that the Republicans will gain the Senate, keep the House, keep their large plurality of Governors and of state legislators.
The highly organized and mobilized multiple-voter blacks of Milwaukee and Minn./St. Paul are what put Al Franken in his seat. Pure fraud uncontested by his opponent, the feckless, gutless RINO SOB, Norm Coleman, and his equally ball-less cohorts at the RNC, led directly to this thoroughly worthless individual in the Senate of the US. The Democrats were allowed to simply keep counting until they won. A replay of the atrocity in Washington, where the election was stolen from Rossi by exactly the same "urban" players.
If ever a case is to made for repeal of the disastrous 17th Amendment, it ought to have Al Franken's picture on it.
Mack (That is Cornelius McGillicuddy IV) is a hopeless drunkard with a violent twist and a demonstrable idiot. (He actually drools.) Of course Nelson beat him. My Irish Setter could have beaten him.
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. They were still loses of seats that should have been GOP pickups.
WI - Tommy Thompson lost, but so did Romney-Ryan. Same thing in quite a few other purple states.
But Scott Walker won. Twice. Wisconsin isn't Massachusetts. Bush came pretty closed to winning it twice and it had been trending more red prior to 2008. Thompson was given a pretty good chance to win. But he didn't.
MO - Our candidate wasn’t up to it. Ditto IN.
I lived through the Akins fiasco. If you can guarantee none of the GOP candidates in 2014 are going to pull similar boneheaded stunts then I'll feel a whole lot better about 2014.
The odds are good that the Republicans will gain the Senate, keep the House, keep their large plurality of Governors and of state legislators.
And I'll repeat; the odds were good for a Senate takeover in 2012 as well. So saying the odds are good in 2014 shouldn't fill people with confidence just yet.
Close only counts in horseshoes - close is informative about the future.
Tommy Thompson was given a good chance and lost - Looking back, he lost. There is, therefore, a metaphysical sense in which his “chance” was always zero. But, given the information available early in the year, he had a good chance. As things developed, that chance slipped away. Who knows what would have happened in Wisconsin if, e.g., the storm hadn’t come ashore in New Jersey, or if Romney had handled Benghazi more deftly. I will not further engage in a superficial discussion of the meaning of probability in a complex world. But, here, wrap your head around the following “chance:” what was the chance that the Japanese scout plane that spotted the U.S. carriers off Midway would have had a busted radio?
Scott Walker won twice - but not during a Presidential election. The turnout model counts.
Nope. No bias there! (/s)
“Its a little different in an actual race where there are only 2 choices.”
or a race in where there’s a hill of beans difference between the marxist incumbent and the socialist challenger.
By the time the election rolls around the GOP will have a lot of momentum. Most everyone will deny that they supported Obama and his “affordable” Health Care plan.
Look for the polls to tighten immensely once there is a conservative nominated.
So what? It’s supposed to be a fight. Get on with it. (Personally, I’d be betting on Jason Lewis in that territory.)
We have 5 boxes with which to defend our freedom …
1. mail box
2. soap box
3. jury box
4. ballot box
5. cartridge box
The time of the mail box has passed.
The time of the soap box is rapidly ending.
The jury box has been nullified.
The ballot box has been corrupted.
That leaves only 1 box left ... get yours, while it's still legal.
Otherwise, we all prematurely end up in the inevitable box 6 feet under.
And 0bama still has a 90% public approval rating? LOL!
Cede MN to Canada.....
What difference does it make? He’d just steal another “selected not elected” campaign as he did last time.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/flashback-schumer-franken-urged-irs-to-target-tea-party-in-2012/
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