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The Al Franken Senate campaign: How to sit still in the polls — and win
In politics as in the intensive care unit, a flat line is usually a sign that something bad is happening. At the moment, however, I’m looking at the essentially flat — actually slightly declining — arc of Al Franken’s polling performance in the Minnesota US Senate race, and that line describes a very different story: the transformation of Franken from also-ran to frontrunner without ever budging more than a couple of points in poll standings.
How did this happen?
A surge of his own: Obama rebounding in the polls
Whether it’s a matter of a) heightened economic fears, b) Obama/Biden’s newly aggressive tack, c) Palin fatigue, or d) all of the above, Barack Obama has seen his polling fortunes tick upward this week. Pollster.com’s national survey-of-surveys captures it in the chart below:
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