Poll: Voters think Franken won
Thursday, March 05, 2009 at 11:41 am
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Rasmussen Reports (more about them here) polls Minnesota voters and finds them reasonably confident that DFLer Al Franken will be their next senator and just about as warm to the idea of a new election. Support for an extra-constitutional re-vote is 46-44, with Republicans heavily in favor. But the headline seems to be the dramatic shift that has taken place since the same poll was conducted in December.
Who won the Senate race? [Numbers in parentheses represent change from December poll]
Al Franken – 47 percent (+31)
Norm Coleman – 35 percent (-32)
Not sure – 18 percent (+1)
There you go: voters think Al Franken won the recount. Since the only precedent for a Senate re-vote was the 1975 New Hampshire mess, where the Democrat who led the recount won the new election, this is more bad news for Coleman.
David Weigel is a politics reporter at the Washington Independent.
6 Comments
Comment posted March 5, 2009 @ 2:53 pm
Steve, what makes you think another election would have a clear result? What’s changed that would produce a result other than another statistical tie, another recount, and another election contest? The error rate was so tiny, I doubt we could improve on it, especially before there’s a chance to change absentee ballot procedures.
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Comment posted March 7, 2009 @ 9:33 am
Franken is intelligent; well informed on all matters political; has not YET been corrupted by the DC money machine and was lawfully elected to be Senator Franken. He is someone I would trust to be able to resist that big temptation. The man doesn’t need funny money (taken from our taxes) to prop him up while serving the American People. He has so far managed on FUNNY and would bring a little humor to the business of governing. Especially when he uses it so well to point out the weaknesses of an argument.
He could put the whole research and writer’s staff of SNL on his staff in DC and they would come up with better results than the political payback aides who, don’t know the difference between finding the truth from finding the arguments that support their senators positions.
Come on Minnesota….send a good man to the Senate, not Norm Coleman.
Comment posted March 8, 2009 @ 9:34 pm
The poll doesn’t say that 47% of voters think Franken won; the question asks “Who will ultimately be declared Minnesota’s next U.S. Senator….Al Franken or Norm Coleman?” The plurality just feels that there’s no way the result will be overturned in the Republican’s favor.
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