Pile of Cash

The Weekly Wrap 10-19

October 19, 2012

Lots going on this week; race ratings, fundraising, polls, ad buys, more polls, and possible campaign dirty tricks

Vote NO on both Amendments

Photo Voter ID Amendment drops 18 (!) points in new poll

October 18, 2012

Support for the marriage amendment is down too

Minnesota State Capitol

Minnesota Legislative Race Ratings – Senate Edition

October 17, 2012

In which I, your intrepid author, Rate All The Senate Races.

Michele Bachmann's mean face

Michele Bachmann leads by nine in first public poll of MN-6

October 16, 2012

We’ve already seen two polls of Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional district race between Representative Michele Bachmann and Jim Graves. Both of those polls were of the internal variety, and both from the Graves campaign itself. Those polls showed a Michele Bachmann lead of five and than two points. The first public poll of the race, conducted […]

Paul Thissen

Minnesota Generic Legislative ballot shows big DFL advantage

October 15, 2012

And what that could mean come November

Rick Nolan

The Weekly Wrap 10-12

October 12, 2012

A post that would more accurately be titled something like “The State of Play in Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional district”

Chip Pointing at Numbers

First public poll of MN-8 race shows a dead heat

October 11, 2012

And a few hints that Chip Cravaack may be in trouble

Obama Klobuchar Franken

Minnesotans shrug off President Obama’s debate performance

October 10, 2012

And Amy Klobuchar expands her lead over Kurt Bills

Vote NO on both Amendments

Plurality oppose the Marriage Amendment says new poll

October 9, 2012

And support for the Photo Voter ID Amendment is at a new low

Rick Nolan

The Weekly Wrap 10-5

October 5, 2012

This week we learn that Minnesota Public Radio is out of the polling game and sometimes what looks like triage is in fact not triage

Mike Trout

What does Mike Trout have to do with the Marriage Amendment?

October 5, 2012

Is the AL MVP debate like the marriage amendment debate?

skewed graph

Skewed polls

October 2, 2012

The discussion of skewed polls and the unskewing of polls centers around partisan identification and what those partisan indentification numbers should be