The Star Tribune’s Minnesota Poll shows DFLer Mark Dayton with a comfortable lead over GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer and Independence party candidate Tom Horner. The poll sampled likely voters, including those with cell phones, and found 39…
File this under “Beside the Point.” On its third day of Minnesota Poll stories, the Star Tribune carries the headline “Most don’t back a Pawlenty run” — as if the governor cares what Minnesotans think. Asked to tell…
Another day brings another post-recount poll of Minnesotans about the U.S. Senate contenders, the recount process itself and what should happen next. According to a Daily Kos-Research 2000 survey, 47 percent of voters support seating Al Franken in the Senate (at least provisionally) and oppose former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s legal challenge to the recount. Though conducted only a day or two after a similar poll by Survey USA for KSTP-TV, the Daily Kos results show some intriguing differences.
On today’s Star Tribune cover Patricia Lopez makes a case that Minnesota voters who don’t intend to vote a straight party line at the top of the ballot could play a critical role in the outcome of the state’s U.S. Senate race. If that sounds familiar it’s because the Strib printed essentially the same story two years ago about voters who backed Democrat Amy Klobuchar for U.S. Senate and Republican Tim Pawlenty for governor. The difference is that in 2006 the poll numbers justified the fuss.
And with this one, I have a new feature for you to examine, in light of the Kennedy campaign’s criticism of the recent Minnesota Poll. Here’s the standard scatter plot and its underlying data as they now…
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