Getting Purpler?
By Mitch Berg
Rasmussen says that the Obama/Clinton lock on Minnesota is fading a bit:
In Minnesota, the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 47% to 43%. The election poll also shows McCain essentially even with Hillary Clinton, leading her by a statistically insignificant 47% to 46%.
Obama leads McCain by eight points among women but trails by a single point among men. Clinton leads McCain by twelve among women but trails by seventeen among men.
Obama leads McCain by fourteen points among unaffiliated voters while McCain leads Clinton by nine among those same voters.
McCain is viewed favorably by 58% of Minnesota voters. Fifty-seven percent (57%) say the same about Obama while 50% have a favorable opinion of Clinton. Compared to a month ago, Obama’s favorables are down seven, McCain’s ratings have fallen four points, and Clinton is down one.
Rasmussen has downupgraded Minnesota from “Likely Democratic” to “Leaning Demcoratic”.
Just keep tugging on that rope.
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Hopefully, peevish will see that at the top the comments:
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March 23rd, 2008 at 8:13 am
Pretty doubtful the race tightening has anything to do with pro-Republican sympathies or shift. In fact, most likely the state is decidedly LESS purple than it was, but when you have your priest/pastor of 20 years come out and embarrass you, things change.
Mitch, Coleman is the incumbant, but I wouldn’t give him better than 4 chances in 10 to win in the fall. People are (rightly) pissed at the Republicans.
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 am
when you have your priest/pastor of 20 years come out and embarrass you, things change
True.
Also when the DFL in the Legislature descends on your wallet like a plague of locusts.
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:33 am
Yeah, Pawlenty sure is winning hearts and minds with stanidng up to a tax to pay for crumbling bridges..
Mitch, you need to check your polls again…they’ve become uncalibrated. And if you think a 5-7 cent a gallon and .5 percent sales tax is a plague of locusts, well, let’s just say hyperbole never takes a day off here at SiTD.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Yeah, Pawlenty sure is winning hearts and minds with stanidng up to a tax to pay for crumbling bridges..
His and the GOPs plans actually put just as much money into bridges as the DFL’s $6.6B plan does.
hyperbole never takes a day off here at SiTD.
It takes millions, yea BILLIONS, of days off.
March 23rd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Actually, the governors version of the bonding bill had about $200 million for replacement bridges, and no money for gorilla cages.
The DFL house and Senate versions have no money for replacement bridges.
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 pm
MoN; Don’t confuse the 6.6 Billion transportation bail out bill with the more General Bonding bill.
The Transportation Spending is mostly at the discretion of MNDot broken down like this:
· Trunk Highways: $3.4 billion
· County State-Aid Highways: $1.5 billion
· Municipal City-Aid Streets: $392 million
· Greater Minnesota Transit: $58 million
· Metropolitan Area Transit: $1.1 billion
. . . but did specifically address “The projects laid out in the bill are specifically 13 fracture critical bridges, including Hastings and Lafayette, and some language that makes sure Highways 60 and 14 get changed to 4 lanes.”
Revenue broke this way:
· Five-cent gas tax increase: $160 million/year ($1.6 billion over 10 years)
· Debt service surcharge: $110 million/year when 3.5-cent cap reached in 2013 ($922 million over 10 years).
· Metropolitan area quarter-cent sales tax: $110 million/year ($1.1 billion over 10 years)
· Vehicle registration tax changes: $1.9 billion over 10 years
· Trunk highway bonding: $1.8 billion over 10 years
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The spending was pretty much the same, the difference is the DFL responsibly felt we should pay for it on our own, the GOP thought we should leave the bill to our kids.
As for the Republimussen, just a moment in time by your Right Wing polster. A lot of time between now and November.
Flash
March 24th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
“bill our kids” flash? Is this the new “for the sake of our children (give teachers more cash)”?
“Republimussen” flash? Convenient.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
McCain is only doing well because he’s in the “none of the above” category right now, while the MSM is focused on Obama-Hillary.
Wait until Hillary locks up the Democrat nomination. Then the Strib will run non-stop anti-McCain articles every single day until the election.
Which they can do, under McCain-Feingold, while others can’t reply for the last 60 days. Serve McCain right if he got beat with his own stick. But sad for the country that Clintons get near the White House again. They shouldn’t even be allowed on the tour.
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