Posted on 10/04/2008 10:00:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Franken pulls ahead in new Minn. poll By HARRY SIEGEL | 10/4/08 12:02 PM EDT Text Size:
A new Star Tribune Minnesota poll released yesterday shows a 13-point jump in support in the last month for Democratic comedian-turned-politician Al Franken, who now has his first clear lead, 43 percent to 34 percent, in the much-watched race against Minnesota incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.
The Star Tribune poll also shows support for the relatively low-profile campaign of Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley at a high watermark of 18 percent, with most of his support drawn from Coleman, in what may be an indication of local unhappiness with Washington in general and Republicans in particular. Franken continues to lead Coleman, though, in a hypothetical two-candidate matchup.
Two trends seem to be contributing Franken's lead in the Star Tribune poll, which also showed Coleman's job-approval rating at a new low of 38 percent. In what's been a fiercely contested campaign, Coleman has taken heat for the tenor of his advertising, with 56 percent of respondents seeing the ads aimed at Franken as “mostly unfair personal attacks,” while just 42 percent said the same about those aimed at Coleman.
The poll also found Democrats have opened a substantial lead in party identification, with 42 percent of likely voters self-identifying as Democrats, compared with just 26 percent identifying as Republicans.
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I don’t think it takes much to look at this poll as complete garbage. In Pawlenty’s winning campaign in 2006, the partisan breakdown was 40% Democrat to 36% Republican. This poll gets the result that it wants by changing the partisan breakdown to 42% Democrats and only 26% Republicans. Realistically, in a presidential year, there is a ZERO percent chance that Republicans don’t make up at least 30-35% of the electorate in Minnesota. Barkley and Franken will be fighting for the rest and the higher Barkley goes, the worse it will be for Franken.
Who’s next to run? Pee-wee Herman?
There was a poll out yesterday that said Cloman was up 10% and McCain was up 1% in MN. How does this change overnight???? Come on, this is unreal.
I agree, if this moron wins in Minn. is there any question now how utterly ignorant the people of that state are? My gawd, their brains have been freeze dried from their winters and pickled with all the booze they consume.
It doesn’t help that that damned Coleman is still a frickin’ RINO!! And he hasn’t been campaigning hard enough. All I ever see on TV are the damned Franken ads!! Where are your teeth, Coleman?
Gawd, I hate this state more and more!
There is a reason why Minnesota has the loon as the state bird. How were they duped in electing Jesse Ventura? Yep, Paul Reubens, aka Pee-Wee Herman, is the next one to carpet bag to Minnesota.
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