Rasmussen: Dayton leads Emmer by 9 percent
Friday, August 13, 2010 at 11:24 am
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Mark Dayton, Tom Horner, Tom Emmer
A Rasmussen poll released on Friday shows DFLer Mark Dayton expanding his lead over the GOP’s Tom Emmer and IP candidate Tom Horner in the governor’s race. The poll also shows that many Minnesota voters see both Dayton and Emmer as extreme in their views and that both have high unfavorable ratings. Forty-five percent of voters preferred Dayton, while Emmer got 36 percent and Horner 10 percent, with 10 percent undecided.
Just under half of those surveyed, 48 percent, said that Dayton held mainstream views while 42 percent said his views were extreme. Forty-one percent said Emmer’s views are mainstream while 40 percent said they were extreme. Horner’s views were rated mainstream by 43 percent of those polled, and 22 percent thought they were extreme.
Only 13 percent of those polled had a “very favorable” impression of Emmer, while 27 percent rated him very unfavorably. Dayton got a 24 percent favorable rating and a 28 percent very unfavorable rating.
Few had much of an opinion of Horner; he rated 3 percent very favorable and 8 percent very unfavorable.
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Comment posted August 13, 2010 @ 11:46 am
Considering Rasmussen’s strong Republican House effect, this should mean good news for Dayton. Those mainstream vs extreme numbers on Dayton seem weird. He has views?
Comment posted August 13, 2010 @ 12:30 pm
Adam, I was thinking the same thing about Rasmussen. Dayton’s actual lead must be a lot more than 9%.
Comment posted August 14, 2010 @ 8:35 am
Actually, this is bad news for Dayton. Dayton has maximum name recognition and he can only garner 45% of the vote. Fifty-five percent want someone else.
Emmer’s survived the first wave of Dayton family mud slinging, has a lower “unfavorable” rating that Dayton, and is within single digits before he even starts his campaign.
Btw, Rasmussen polls are more accurate than the others because the measure likely voters and not simply “adults” who could be waiting in line outside of Dorothy Day, for all we know. This is how they got their reputation for being more “republican leaning.” They poll real voters.
Comment posted August 14, 2010 @ 12:33 pm
Too bad they didn’t have a category of “boring”. I am sure Horner would have done extremely well.
Comment posted August 14, 2010 @ 5:23 pm
I wonder if Dayton has ever worked a day in his life, oh wait…he HASN’T.
Comment posted September 1, 2010 @ 12:40 pm
Dano, I guess teaching in inner city schools isn’t considered work? For heaven’s sake, do your homework before making statements like that.
Comment posted September 16, 2010 @ 4:29 pm
Dennis you are a moron in all sense of the word you should really take a look at the utter budget crisis Minnesota is in. It is not because of Ventura It it typical republican crap that created this mess.
Comment posted October 26, 2010 @ 9:31 am
Dennis writes:
“Actually, this is bad news for Dayton. Dayton has maximum name recognition and he can only garner 45% of the vote. Fifty-five percent want someone else.”
Pawlenty was elected TWICE with less than 50% of the vote (44% in 2002 and 46% in 2006). For Pawlenty’s re-election, no one can claim he didn’t have “maximum name recognition”, yet more than half of Minnesotans voted for someone else.
So, Dennis, using your “logic”, more than half of Minnesotans didn’t want Pawlenty as governor. Twice.
So what is your point? That Pawlenty wasn’t entitled to be governor? Or that Pawlenty’s ideas were rejected by the majority of voters, and for the last 8 years Minnesota has lived with his decisions which they did not support? That your conservative ideas got representation when more than 50% of Minnesotans felt differently? Was Pawlenty a case of the minority oppressing the majority, Dennis?
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