{"id":14159,"date":"2010-10-08T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14159"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:38:04","slug":"too-close-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14159","title":{"rendered":"Too Close To Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest Rasmussen Poll confirms what many of us conservatives have suspected; the gubernatorial race is way too close to call<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer are still in a virtual tie in Minnesota\u2019s gubernatorial contest.<\/p>\n

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Dayton picking up 40% of the vote, while Emmer draws support from 38%. Independence Party candidate Tom Horner remains a distant third with 15%. One percent (1%) prefer a different candidate, and five percent (5%) are still undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)<\/p>\n

This race remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Gubernatorial Scorecard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The cross-tabs are starkly divided; among people who think the economy is improving, Dayton wins a huge plurality of bobbleheaded “voters”; Emmer prevails among realists.<\/p>\n

There’s a nod in the polling toward Minnesota’s wierd tradition of giving hapless third-party candidates who don’t wear feather boas way more credence than they deserve<\/a> in its methodology:<\/p>\n

In the Minnesota governor\u2019s race, Rasmussen Reports has made a decision not to use our traditional leaners model. Normally, that model shows support falling off for a third-party candidate. However, in Minnesota, third-party candidates often defy that trend, and a look at the initial preference data suggests that may be happening this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I suspect the leaners will give Emmer another point or two. \u00a0We’ll see.<\/p>\n

One thing’s for sure; looking at the favorable\/unfavorable numbers…:<\/p>\n

Emmer is viewed favorably by 46% of Minnesota voters and unfavorably by 48%, including 19% Very Favorable and 31% Very Unfavorable.<\/p>\n

For Dayton, favorables are 50% and unfavorables 47%. This includes 26% with a Very Favorable opinion of him and 35% with a Very Unfavorable one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…I guess the Dayton Family investment in “Alliance for a Better Minnesota”‘ smear campaign was money well spent, at least in the short term.<\/p>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

But that may not be the last polling news we see today. \u00a0Just saying. \u00a0Stay tuned to SITD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest Rasmussen Poll confirms what many of us conservatives have suspected; the gubernatorial race is way too close to call: Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer are still in a virtual tie in Minnesota\u2019s gubernatorial contest. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Dayton picking up 40% of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[115,312],"class_list":["post-14159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","tag-abm","tag-mngov-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47786,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/47786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}