Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar both saw positive approval ratings from Minnesotans in a poll released by Rasmussen on Friday. Also in the poll results: 49 percent of respondents said Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s presidential aspirations have affected his performance as governor.
Franken got a 50-percent approval rating in the poll, with 46 percent disapproving. Klobuchar fared even better with 67 percent approving and 30 percent disapproving.
Half of those polled said they would not vote for Pawlenty if he ran for president, and 38 percent said they would. Twenty-nine percent said his potential run for president has had a positive impact on his job performance, while 49 percent said that it has had a negative impact.














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Comment posted March 12, 2010 @ 2:47 pm
If the governor’s performance is an indicator of what a presidency would be like, America should just sign it’s rights over to China. This guy is a bulldozer for his own agenda- look at the various state depatments web sites, especially the Department of Education, the site is nothing more than an unpaid political advertizement for his bid for presidency. He has run this state into the ground financially, robbed from the poor to give to the rich, made promises to those who contributed to his campaign fund and kept those promises by unalloting. He is arrogant, smug and a closet racist. He is scary in his hidden agenda. If you took a real poll of outstate Minnesotan’s you would find just how anti-pawlenty this state has become in the past 8 years. If something does not benefit the friends of pawlenty in the metro, the veto pen comes out or it funding is slashed by the unallotment. He speaks with a forked tongue.
Comment posted March 13, 2010 @ 6:36 pm
Hey how bout the latest from this loser siphoning money from the vets license plate program to the tune of at least $30,000,
Comment posted March 15, 2010 @ 12:46 am
I understand why Pawlenty’s results are the lede, but It seems notable that Franken has reached 50% support. I think this is the first poll to report that. 50% is generally regarded at the danger point for incumbent politicians, but in Franken’s case, the movement is in the right direction.
Comment posted March 15, 2010 @ 8:38 am
The economic anti-liberals! Get rid of them!
Comment posted March 16, 2010 @ 7:21 pm
Senator Al Franken should be delighted to have a 50-percent favorable rating with the people of Minnesota.
The 50-percent who recognize what an outstanding job Senator Franken is doing in the Senate are probably the same people who voted for him to be Minnesota’s Senator.
The folks who don’t think severely wounded Veterans should have Companion Dogs, women working for Government Contractors that get raped deserved it and are happy paying steep premiums for Health Care that will be canceled when they get sick are a hard bunch to please.
They still have scraped knees from all the time they spent praying that Senator Franken would lose the election to you-know-who.
The Voters of Minnesota. Bless your hearts and souls.
I wish there was some way I could appeal to Secretary of State Richie and have him tell me the name of the guy who colored-in the WHOLE Ballot except for the little white oval left to indicate he voted.
And all those Improperly Done Absentee Ballots. Too bad.
Minnesota wouldn’t need Absentee Ballots if on Election Day, everybody who showed-up to cast their ballot gets a coupon to Bowl 3 games for free!
Comment posted May 11, 2010 @ 10:22 pm
Maybe Michelle Bachmann should take lessons on how to be a good senator from Franken and Klobucher. At least they are working for the people of minnesota unlike Bachmann who is running around making a fool out of herself, and trying to make a name for herself instead of working for the people of Minnesota. By the way the name she is making for herself is really not printable!!
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