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SurveyUSA poll shows Minnesota slipping away from GOP … again: Al Franken and Mark Dayton ahead
Hotair ^ | 10/11/2014 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 10/11/2014 11:57:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

In almost every electoral cycle, Republicans feel they have a winning hand in Minnesota to turn the state red. And in almost every electoral cycle, their hopes get dashed. The GOP has not won a statewide electoral contest in Minnesota since Tim Pawlenty’s narrow re-election victory in 2006, and according to Survey USA’s latest poll, 2014 won’t break the pattern:

In Minnesota, one month to Election Day, incumbent Democrats Mark Dayton and Al Franken appear well positioned for re-election, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis-St Paul. The victories do not reflect any larger love for Democrats nationwide. Barack Obama’s approval rating in Minnesota is Minus 14, with just 39% approving of the job he is doing as President.

In the Senate race, Al Franken leads today by 18 points, 55% to 37%. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released 08/22/14, Franken is up 4 points, and Republican challenger Mike McFadden is down 5 points. Franken had led McFadden by 9 points, now twice that. In August, McFadden had led among men by 5 points. Today, Franken leads among men by 15 points, a 20-point swing to the DFL. In August, Franken and McFadden were tied among independent voters; Franken today leads by 17. In Northeast MN, McFadden in August had led by 2 points, now trails by 28 points. Franken’s job approval today is at its all-time high of 56%, unchanged from August 2014.

In the Governor race, Mark Dayton today leads by 11 points, 51% to 39%. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released 08/22/14, Dayton is up a nominal 2 points, Republican challenger Jeff Johnson is down a nominal 1 point. Although at the highest level, the polling is stable, there is some offsetting movement in the sub-populations.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 2014; alfranken; dayton; democrats; franken; markdayton; minnesota; senate
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To: Conservative Gato

IMHO, the 16th won’t do a thing when the Constitution is not being followed.

Gov’t taxes on income to pay for WAY TOO many instances not authorized. But, does that seem to matter to anyone inside the beltway? Or the States?

Foreign Aid, New Deal programs, Dept of XYZ...each and everyone, and more, has NO basis even being whispered; let alone allowed and funded more and more each year

Hell, they could tax everyone to 100%, but that still wouldn’t = slavery to the Libs/judges.


41 posted on 10/11/2014 3:52:36 PM PDT by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: IronJack

Los Angeles and a few other cities are somewhat of an exception to the general rule, I admit, and obviously the weather is one of many factors in determining where liberalism festers. Perhaps liberals just like to move to areas which are cold, as the cold weather helps facilitate their anger and bitterness.

Covering CA specifically: look at any weather map, and you’ll see that temperatures in CA dramatically increase as you head east; conservatism similarly increases. The most conservative big city in CA is Anaheim, the most liberal city is the frigid San Francisco. (Remember, CA also gave us Reagan; with the exception of Alaska and perhaps Michelle Bachmann, the best conservatives seem to come from warmer climates.)

Here’s a chart of liberal and conservative cities, notice the correlation:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-most-liberal-and-conservative-cities-revealed-in-one-chart/article/2551893


42 posted on 10/11/2014 5:16:37 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: doorgunner69

Mondale was from MN; Gore was the first favorite son not to carry his own state in a Presidential election. Romney was the second , if Massachusetts was truly his home state


43 posted on 10/11/2014 6:11:48 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: All
Campaign Contributions Scandal Ensnares AL FRANKEN in IRS’s Missing Emails
Colorado Observer. ^ | June 19, 2014 | Audrey Hudson / FR Posted 6/21 by george76

...... missing among the IRS’s internal emails are communications with Sens. Mark Udall, Mark Begich, Mary Landrieu, Al Franken, and a dozen other Democrats who received campaign contributions from the federal agency’s union. Democratic senators who took campaign donations from the IRS union include Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana who received $25,500, Al Franken of Minnesota with $5,000, and Mark Begich of Alaska. (Excerpt) Read more at thecoloradoobserver.com

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HEY, AL---WADDA YA KNOW ABOUT THIS? Hennepin County attorney’s office is investigating whether a private mailbox center in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood has been improperly used as an address for more than 140 voters. State records show that 419 Cedar Avenue S. has been used by some of the voters as far back as 2008. [Ed.: In other words, since Al Franken's 2008 campaign.]

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MEMO TO FRANKEN VOTERS As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted (by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote) into the "Affordable Care Act :

QUOTING OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.” Repeated over and over by every Democrat----with the promise that every American would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs. Every Democrat enthusiastically chimes in, echoing the same false promises----lock-stepping party loyalty not seen since 1940's-era Europe.

Quoting Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn): "people who are happy with their current plan, wouldn't need to change it."

FRANKEN YOUTUBE SOUND BITE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8I

44 posted on 10/12/2014 4:56:31 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: All
DULUTH NEWS TRIBUNE: Al Franken supports free-for-all
abortions------sponsors bill to nullify most limits on abortion.

So typical....the last refuge of a scoundrel...a woman's vagina.

Minnesota woman need to ask themselves"
Do you want Al Franken messing in your vagina?

45 posted on 10/12/2014 5:05:38 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: Gay State Conservative
What are Osama Obama’s approval numbers in Minnesota?

39% approve, 53% disapprove.

46 posted on 10/12/2014 5:12:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: gusopol3
Gore was the first favorite son not to carry his own state in a Presidential election. Romney was the second , if Massachusetts was truly his home state

Come on, Gore was hardly the first and Romney was hardly the second. In the 20th Century alone, Taft didn't take his home state in 1912, Wilson didn't take his home state in 1916, and none of FDRs opponents took their home states.

47 posted on 10/12/2014 5:23:59 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

thanks.


48 posted on 10/12/2014 5:37:23 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: SeekAndFind

I agree, people of this state are stupid. More foolish voting.


49 posted on 10/12/2014 10:39:46 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: SeekAndFind

Minnesota election law requires that any person who signs an oath that they are eligible, MUST be given a ballot, even if state databases have records that show the person to be ineligible to vote.

MN law also instructs counties that all new Voter Registration Applications submitted on Election Day must be verified AFTER THE ELECTION.

After the 2008 election, more than 48,000 election day registrants were unable to be BERIFIED as eligible to vote. There was, and remains, no way to recall those votes.
According to court records, it was determined that at least 1,000 ineligible felons voted in the 2008 election that Al Franken won by 312 votes.

This all goes to show how corrupt Minnesota elections are and have been and will continue to be unless Minnesota Voters Alliance (MNVoters.org) can get more donations and conitnue to succesfully sue and win in court.


50 posted on 10/13/2014 9:22:43 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: IronJack
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51 posted on 10/13/2014 9:25:55 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: From The Deer Stand
Why did Dayton win? In a nutshell, the Peoples Republics of Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth.

[Pioneer Press] “. . .While Republicans were retaking the House, Dayton defeated Republican challenger Jeff Johnson, 50-45 percent, by piling up huge vote margins in the state's three largest DFL strongholds: Hennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis counties.

"Johnson carried most of the state's suburban and rural counties, but Dayton beat him 63-22 percent in Ramsey County, 62-32 percent in St. Louis County and 59-36 percent in Hennepin. The governor won by 110,000 votes because he carried those three counties by 185,000 votes."

52 posted on 11/06/2014 7:50:17 AM PST by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: rhema
One difference between Northern tier states like Minnesota and New York and the South is that rural, predominantly white areas vote 55-60% Republican, whereas similar areas in Southern states vote 75-90% Republican. In one Texas Panhandle county, the Democrat U.S. Senate candidate received 3.5% of the vote, barely beating the Libertarian candidate, who got 2.5%. Additionally, while the core counties in Southern states are liberal, the suburban counties are not. (I exclude the Northern Virginia and south Florida metro areas, which are Northeastern/Caribbean colonies.) OTOH, most of the suburban counties around New York City went Democrat, though by lesser margins than the city proper.

Even in darkest Yankeeland, there is a glimmer of hope, in the three "M" states in that region electing Republican (though RINO) governors.

53 posted on 11/06/2014 8:02:16 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.

Verne Gagne country.


54 posted on 11/06/2014 8:02:46 AM PST by Ted Grant
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