Minnesota Legislature generic ballot tests from last week’s polls

September 17, 2012

Last week both SurveyUSA and Public Policy Polling released polls of the state. I’ve already covered the amendment portions of both polls, as well as the Presidential and Senatorial portions of those polls. Uncovered by me so far are the generic ballot tests for the Minnesota legislature that appeared in both of those polls. The Minnesota […]

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Obama ahead, Klobuchar cruising

September 14, 2012

The two Democrats running statewide in Minnesota this year, President Obama and Senator Klobuchar, are at or above 50% in both of the polls released this week

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Another day, another poll on the amendments

September 13, 2012

This poll shows both an increase in support for the Marriage amendment and increase in opposition to the Photo Voter ID amendment

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Marriage and Photo Voter ID amendments both ahead

September 12, 2012

But the opposition has gained ground since the last poll

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Michael Brodkorb is not impressed with Kurt Bills

Kurt Bills internal poll shows him losing big

September 10, 2012

Why do you release a poll showing you down by fourteen points?

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Sources of error in polls, part 2

September 6, 2012

The rip-roaring conclusion of the series that’s gripping the nation

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Sources of error in polls

September 4, 2012

A discussion of sampling error, ’cause that’s what all the kids are talking about

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The rest of that SurveyUSA poll

July 24, 2012

Obama loses ground, A-Klo still crushes and Paul Thissen looks like the next Speaker of the House

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Rule Number One of Hitchhiking and Poll Watching, Don’t Panic

July 23, 2012

I woke up Saturday morning only to immediately be confronted by the gnashing of garments and rending of teeth over the seemingly impossible results of the new SurveyUSA (KSTP) poll on the hatin’ on marriage amendment. There must be something wrong with the poll right? I mean, the last two polls, one by PPP and […]

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Michele Bachmann under 50, Jim Graves 5 points back

June 27, 2012

OMG! Michele is under 50%!! She is definitely going to lose this time… right?

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New poll shows Vikings stadium vote doesn’t matter to voters

May 14, 2012

At the height of the drama (or lack thereof) surrounding the legislatures passage of the Vikings stadium bill, KSTP sent their pollster, SurveyUSA, into the field to find out what voters think about it. The headline number out of the poll is the finding that, for the first time since polling of the Vikings stadium […]

by Tony Petrangelo

A-Klo, Dayton and the terrible, rotten, no-good Legislature

February 10, 2012

This is me, two weeks ago: Posts about Amy Klobuchar polls are not really that fun to write. Every one is exactly the same, Amy is at around 55% and when you’re at 55% it doesn’t really matter what your challengers are doing. And hey, look at that, this poll shows her at 55%. Against […]

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