Channel Five is going to be releasing their next round of Minnesota Gubernatorial campaign polling today; they’ll reportedly be running DFL Primary numbers in the afternoon newscasts, DFL/Emmer matchup numbers at 10. 

It’s going to be a lot closer than the last poll Channel Five ran, which showed Emmer with a nice lead; it could very well show Emmer running behind.

The DFL/Establishment Media (pardon the redundancy) and their minions in the Sorosphere will try to spin this as a setback for Emmer;  their goal is to demoralize you, the conservative in the street.

Don’t buy the hype.  And don’t let anyone else buy it.

The GOP convention is six weeks in the past, and Emmer’s campaign is in the “face to face” stage; Tom is using his two month head start to travel the state, meeting people, shaking hands, kissing babies (or teaching them how to check) and listening to people around Greater Minnesota.  He has no ads running; the only “news” his campaign is making right now is the manufactured variety the DFL/Media toss out there.  

In the meantime, the DFL are moving into the peak of their primary season; they’ve got TV ads moving, they’re in full campaign mode, and they – at least, Anderson-Kelliher and Entenza and Horner – are working full-bore to increase their name ID (which is the least of former Senator Dayton’s problems).   They’re in the news – and even if you leave out the mainstream press’ outbreaks of partisan fawning, they are filling more space right now.

And the Emmer vs. DFL numbers will be skewed by the fact that none of the DFLers are “for real” yet; since none of them is the official candidate, none of them has any realy sticky negatives – unlike Emmer, against whom the DFL and their drinking buddies in the media are circling their wagons. 

So it’s to be expected Emmer’s numbers are going to cool off just a tad.  Indeed, if the Dems don’t post a lead of some sort, against a GOP candidate who is still building stateswide name ID, it could be considered a bit of a slap in the face at this point in the campaign, under the circumstances.

Remember – in September in 2002, Tim Pawlenty was trailing Roger Moe and Tim Penny, if you believed the polls.

So stay strong, Real Americans.  We have not yet begun to fight.