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A new SurveyUSA poll released on Thursday shows a solid majority of Americans back a public option as part of health care reform. Seventy-seven percent said it was extremely important or quite important that health reform efforts include a public option along with maintaining the private insurance infrastructure.

The ongoing budget battle at the Capitol is not endearing state legislators to the public, according to a new SurveyUSA poll. Just 26 percent of Minnesota residents expressed approval of the job being performed by the state legislature, according to the poll, commissioned by KSTP (Channel 5), while 64 percent indicated disapproval.

The cratering economy hasn’t yet turned Minnesotans against Barack Obama. According to a new SurveyUSA poll, 61 percent of those surveyed approve of the job he’s been doing after two months in office.
Not surprisingly the numbers vary dramatically by party affiliation. Nearly 90 percent of Democrats expressed satisfaction with Obama’s job performance, while just 30 [...]

Barack Obama remains popular with Minnesotans, according to new SurveyUSA poll results. Sixty-two percent of Minnesotans approve of the president, while 32 percent disapprove. Six percent are on the fence.
That 62 percent remains steady from January, which is a bit of an anomaly. From Smart Politics: “In Minnesota, however, approval of Obama’s performance fell by [...]

A KSTP/SurveyUSA poll conducted last week found that a plurality of Minnesotans want a combination of budget cuts and an increase in taxes to fix the historic $4.8 billion deficit now facing legislators and the governor. What’s more, Minnesotans said they’d like wealthier taxpayers to shoulder the burden.

A second poll released in the last 24 hours confirms that the Sixth Congressional District contest is extremely close less than two weeks before election day. According to the poll released today by Minnesota Public Radio, 45 percent of those surveyed support Democratic challenger Elwyn Tinklenberg, while 43 percent favor incumbent Republican Michele Bachmann.

Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg leads U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) 47 percent to 44 percent in a new poll of 621 likely voters in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District that Survey USA conducted Oct. 21–22 for KSTP-TV. The poll shows that 6 percent of respondents favored Independence Party candidate Bob Anderson and 2 percent were undecided. The poll has margin of [...]

In what pollsters are calling a “do-si-do,” results of the latest survey in the high-profile race for Minnesota’s 3rd district congressional seat show DFLer Ashwin Madia holding a slight 46-43 percent lead over Republican state Rep. Erik Paulsen — a three-point spread that’s within the poll’s 4-percent margin of error. SurveyUSA conducted the poll of 634 likely voters for KSTP on Oct. 6–7.