Gov. Tim Pawlenty tied for 6th in a Gallup poll on presidential hopefuls released on Thursday. The poll surveyed Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Mitt Romney topped the poll, followed by Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee. Pawlenty has struggled to make it out of single digits in surveys and straw polls over the last year.
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…
The Republican Party of Minnesota filed a complaint with the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board Tuesday alleging that a poll by Decision Resources Ltd., amounted to a campaign contribution to Independence Party candidate Tom Horner.…
A SurveyUSA poll released last week shows Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s approval rating at its lowest level in his career as governor. And that drop in support is happening as Pawlenty works to improve his standing among national Republicans…
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s constituents have noticed that her increasingly prominent role as a high-profile conservative has focused her attention away from her district’s needs, but they don’t seem to mind.
A new poll released Thursday by Public Policy Polling (pdf) asked Minnesotans their opinion about former-Sen. Norm Coleman’s chances should he run for governor. The poll found Democrats R.T. Rybak and Mark Dayton out-polling Coleman and that the battle…
A new Gallup Poll, released two days before today’s tax day “Tea Party” protests, finds that 48% of Americans say the amount of federal income taxes they pay is “about right” — “one of the most positive…
The Beliefnet forum, one of the largest religion-related discussion sites on the web, has conducted a post-election survey to gauge the values and motivations of believers who voted for Barack Obama or John McCain.
Here’s the eye-catcher: “Half of…
Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com published a great piece this morning about why you shouldn’t waste your time trying to google up exit poll leaks: They’re always wrong.
Some of the reasons (there are 10 in all):
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Results released by the Christian polling outfit, Barna Group, shows that Sen. John McCain has failed to hold on to a critical part of the Republican base: born-again evangelical Christians. Even with Gov. Sarah Palin on the ticket, support from the key constituency has floundered compared to Bush’s numbers in 2004.
Meanwhile, independent groups are hitting the airwaves on Christian talk radio with ads featuring Sen. Barack Obama talking about his faith and prominent “pro-lifers” explaining — and supporting — Obama’s position on abortion.
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