Minnesota Independent

Pawlenty lags in Quinnipiac poll of 2012 contenders

By Andy Birkey | 11.23.10 | 8:00 am

Gov. Tim Pawlenty finished a distant fifth place among potential presidential hopefuls in a poll of Republican voters released on Monday. According to the Quinnipiac University poll, Pawlenty trailed Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich, who all broke the 15 percent mark. Pawlenty garnered 6 percent in the poll and beat out Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour, and John Thune.

Latest battleground polls brutal for McCain

By Paul Demko | 10.23.08 | 8:50 am

A slew of new polls released this morning look ominous for John McCain’s presidential hopes. The Big Ten Battleground surveys show Barack Obama with double-digit leads in both Ohio (+12) and Indiana (+10), states that most recent polls…

Quinnipiac swing states poll shows ‘dramatic’ gains for Obama

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.01.08 | 8:36 am

Quinnipiac University’s new Swing States Poll, released this morning, shows sharp gains for Barack Obama in three vote-rich swing states, prompting a top Quinnipiac figure to comment that “John McCain has his work cut out for him.” Obama saw big gains in key states like Ohio and Florida, where he leads McCain by eight percentage points, and Pennsylvania, where he leads McCain by 15.