Reply With QuoteTime to be a real hombre Kerry and call Bush out.
Well, Nader has 5%. Not sure if he was on the ballot there. I would suppose so if they are including him in the polling...
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USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll Shows Bush and Kerry in Dead Heat in Minnesota
Wednesday September 15, 8:00 pm ET
MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- USA TODAY/CNN/GALLUP have released the results of a poll of likely voters in the battleground state of Minnesota. The results show that of likely voters in that state, George W. Bush and John Kerry each have 45% of the vote, with Ralph Nader receiving 5% of the vote.
The poll of 675 likely voters, conducted September 11 - 14, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
In addition to nationwide polls, USA TODAY/CNN/GALLUP is tracking the support for the candidates in the closely contested states likely to decide the 2004 election. Results for the Minnesota state poll will appear in tomorrow's editions of USA TODAY. Complete results can now be found on USATODAY.com by going to www.politics.usatoday.com and clicking on USA TODAY polls.
USA TODAY is the nation's top selling newspaper. It is published via satellite at 36 locations in the USA and four sites abroad. With a total average daily circulation of 2.3 million, USA TODAY is available worldwide. USA TODAY is published by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI - News).
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Time to be a real hombre Kerry and call Bush out.
Sure, but on what would he call him out?
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Poll: Kerry Holds Lead Over Bush in Minn.
Wed Sep 15,12:02 PM ET
MINNEAPOLIS - Democratic candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) leads President Bush (news - web sites), 50 percent to 41 percent, in a presidential poll of likely voters in Minnesota, according to results released Wednesday.
The Star Tribune Minnesota Poll shows 8 percent of likely voters in the state remain undecided. Independent candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites) received less than 1 percent in the poll.
The poll surveyed 1,035 likely voters statewide from Sept. 7 to Sept. 13 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Maybe that Bush isn't tall enough to be president?|Sure, but on what would he call him out?
Bush up 2% in Minnesota Public Radio/Mason-Dixon poll.
news.minnesota.publicradi...llresults/
Bush 46%
Kerry 44%
www.strategicvision.biz/p...nesota.htm
Sep. 14
801 LV
MOE 3.0
Without Nader
Kerry 49
Bush 45
With Nader
Kerry 48
Bush 45
www.americanresearchgroup.com/
Sep. 12
600LV
MOE 4.0
Kerry 47
Bush 45
www.economist.com/researc...id=1527355
Swing states
Too southern for Minnesota
May 20th 2004 | BLAINE, MINNEAPOLIS AND WILLMAR
The Economist
The third in our series looks at a state where demography is moving in George Bush's favour, but the Iraq war is deeply unpopular—as are Dixie values
IT IS a sunny day in Blaine, but you would not know it inside the sprawling sports centre. Shivering around four Olympic-size ice rinks, ranks of middle-class parents wearily watch their children play ice hockey. Voters like these, from the suburbs of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St Paul, will decide how the state votes in the presidential election in November.
It is a measure of how much Minnesota has changed that George Bush is within shouting distance of success. The state of Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and the Democratic-Farm-Labour (DFL) Party once held almost mythical status among liberals. They saw it as a sort of Nordic paradise, full of pristine lakes and forests, generous social programmes, thriving culture and blue-eyed blondes with a Scandinavian penchant for worthy causes.
Nowadays, Minnesota's congressional delegation is split evenly between the DFL, as the local Democrats like to be known, and the (fairly moderate) Republicans. It has not elected a Democratic governor since the 1980s. In 2002, when Paul Wellstone, the most left-wing member of the Senate, was killed in a plane crash, his seat was won by the Republican mayor of St Paul, Norm Coleman.
Demography is on the Republicans' side. The DFL coalition between farms and labour has frayed, as people have moved away from agriculture in the south and the iron mines in the north-east—and into the suburbs. There they have often discovered that they have less in common with cosmopolitan liberals than they imagined. Meanwhile, outsiders have poured into the same suburbs, seeking a comfortable place to bring up their families; many of them are more interested in low taxes than in generous welfare programmes.
Four of the counties gathered around the Twin Cities now have half the state's population. Blaine, once full of grassland farms and trailer parks, bustles with new housing developments and shopping centres. It has a biggish golf tournament and hopes for both a professional-sports stadium and a light-rail extension. The population of Anoka County, where Blaine sits, has jumped from 196,000 in 1980 to 310,000 today.
Once a Democratic stronghold, Anoka County became the heart of “Ventura country”: it rallied to Jesse Ventura, the wrestler who became governor in 1998 on a Reform (later to be Independence) Party ticket that offered low taxes and social tolerance. In 2002, Tim Pawlenty, the current Republican governor, captured 30 of the 38 counties that Mr Ventura won. Having signed a pledge not to raise taxes, Mr Pawlenty has kept a lid on social services.
It may be that Minnesota is becoming more like the rest of America. Conservatives used to joke that it really belonged to Canada; but it now has only the tenth-heaviest tax burden in the country. Libraries and park services have been cut, and visa-expiry dates are now stamped on the driving licences of immigrants in a most unScandinavian way.
Mr Bush is certainly on the prowl in Minnesota. He has visited the state eight times since taking office, and his organisation is in high gear, while John Kerry's is still at the stage of buying office furniture. Despite this, the most recent poll, in late March, gave Mr Kerry a 12-point lead.
The economy provides one grudge against Mr Bush—though a smaller one than in other mid-western states, because Minnesota's more diversified economy has held up relatively well. Plenty of suburbanites have felt the squeeze, but the economic hurt seems concentrated in the north-eastern “Iron Range” (“Talk about steel imports and it really gets them going,” says Tim Penny, a former Independence Party candidate for governor), and in rural areas. In Willmar, a town in central Minnesota, the local Jennie-O meat-processing plant has hired waves of immigrants, but growth has slowed. At Bihi's Shop of African Foods, a dozen Somalis say they like their new home, but moan that jobs are harder to find now. The two of them who can vote will go for Mr Kerry.
A bigger problem for Mr Bush is the Iraq war. There is something of an urban-rural split on the issue—with the plains far more inclined to back the president and the troops, who tend to come from rural areas. Yet Mr Bush's belligerent approach seems to have touched a peacenik nerve in the state. Lawrence Jacobs, a political scientist at the University of Minnesota, points out that the president's ratings on terrorism are about ten points lower in Minnesota than they are nationally.
This ties into a broader su ion that Mr Bush's brand of Republicanism is just a little too Dixified for Minnesota. Ventura country likes Schwarzenegger Republicans, pragmatic figures who take a moderate stance on social issues such as abortion and the environment. Minnesota has relatively high church-attendance rates, but the evangelical influence is still much fainter than in, say, Texas; Minnesota Christians, with their Lutheran cast, devote their energy to social justice in the third world rather than dreaming up new ways to punish the wicked at home.
One small opening for Mr Bush could be provided by Ralph Nader, the independent. Last time, when Mr Nader ran as a Green Party candidate, he won 5% of the vote in Minnesota. Many Wellstone supporters despise Mr Kerry's moderation on Iraq (where only Mr Nader seems keen to leave immediately). On the other hand, their dislike of Mr Kerry pales beside their longing to remove Mr Bush.
Minnesota is still trending towards Kerry
www.realcities.com/mld/kr...tstory.jsp
Sep. 11-14
625 RV
MoE +/-4.0
Kerry 46
Bush 44
Nader 1
Undecided 9
Rasmussen
9/18-9/24
500 Likely Voters
4.5 Margin of Error
Bush 46
Kerry 46
Nadar
Minnesota has definitely swung toward Kerry..
Star-Tribune
10/9-10/11
809 LV
3.4 MOE
Bush 43.
Kerry 48
Nadar 02
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Chicago Tribune
10/8-10/11
500 LV
4.4 MOE
Bush 43
Kerry 45
Nadar 02
Only 2min clip...you know he smoked herThey just debated again... But per usual. These videos aren't available anywhere. Either catch it live or miss out. Bull service to the people from our media sources.As long as Tina Smith pushes the evil of abortion, you will not find me voting for her. Aside from this major issue, Tina Smith also fails to see the importance of lowering taxes in an effort to appeal to small businesses.
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