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BRUTAL: LESS THAN HALF OF DFLERS VIEW FRANKEN FAVORABLY
By Michael B. Brodkorb | October 1, 2007
How can Al Franken be the DFL nominee when less than 50% of DFLers view him favorably?
"Comedian Al Franken, who has been working double time to establish his bona fides among the DFL faithful, is viewed favorably by only 27 percent of Minnesotans. Fewer than half of DFLers view the political satirist favorably, and more than a third of Minnesotans hold a negative opinion of him. Nearly 30 percent say they've never heard of Franken." Source: Star Tribune, September 30, 2007
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This poll is horrible news for Team Franken. Leave your thoughts in the comment section, but I think the race on the DFL side is wide-open and another DFL candidate could get in the race.
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October 1st, 2007 at 10:03 am
Hmm…and the rest of the story (not mentioned by MDE surprise, surprise)is that Coleman’s approval rating is 45% and furthermore this same article stated:
“Nonetheless, Coleman’s job approval is below 50 percent in every demographic category –considered trouble for an incumbent….”
Ergo, while the Dems have a long hill to climb, it is clear that Norm is in tough shape for a 6 year incumbent.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:52 am
MN Blue, care to make a bet? Norm wins you never post here again, If a dem wins, I will go away?
October 1st, 2007 at 11:03 am
Senator Coleman is in dangerous water unless he changes his position (which should not be a problem for him) on the war, Minnesotans will plug their nose and vote for whoever is his opponent.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:14 am
Oh yes, Thomas! That sure would make a difference. I’m CERTAIN that all you liberals would lay down your arms and join the Re-Elect Coleman camp!
Coleman is not a cut-and-run, retreat-and-defeat senator. You liberals remind me of the Killer Rabbit scene from “The Holy Grail”…RUN AWAY…RUN AWAY!
October 1st, 2007 at 11:16 am
I think he’s well positioned on the war now. He’s occupying the same position the majority of Minnesotans and the majority of Americans hold.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:23 am
… and that is to say, that while the war is unpopular, surrender is less popular. Most Minnesotans and most Americans to see the light at the end of the tunnel with regard to our presence in Iraq.
However, they oppose a precipitous, unilateral withdrawal. They oppose leaving Iraq to genocide. And they oppose cutting off funds for soldiers in the field.
Norm Coleman is pretty squarely with the majority.
Democrats are severely over playing their hand when it comes to Iraq.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:32 am
I’ll bet on Coleman too! If he wins, liberals should temper their responses for a duration….and likewise if we lose, I’ll temper my reflections!
October 1st, 2007 at 11:34 am
Do the liberals never grow tired of this game they play calling the opposition weak and going to fail. Yet election after election many are still there they said were gone for sure.
Norm wins this quite easily and even more so if the DFL puts up Franken.
The trial lawyer will not afir any better as not only Minnesotan’s not cool with lawyers who make millions of taxpayers, neither is the country as a whole.
They may as well dust of Patty Wetterling for this one.
Maybe “Mom” Wilde could step in.
Well if they want to be serious, then maybe Rowley could make it?
I hear after 2008 elections Broom-Wellstone will have time on his / it’s hands.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
BRUTAL: COLEMAN’S UNFAVORABLE RATING IS HIGHER THAN FRANKEN
How can Norm Coleman be the DFL nominee when more than 34% view him unfavorably?
“Comedian Al Franken, who has been working double time to establish his bona fides among the DFL faithful, is viewed unfavorably by only 34 percent of Minnesotans.” Senator Coleman, who is a sitting US Senator, is viewed unfavorably by 35 percent of Minnesotans. Source: Star Tribune, September 30, 2007
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This poll is horrible news for Team Coleman. Leave your thoughts in the comment section, but I think the race on the IR side is wide-open and another IR candidate could get in the race. It’s time for Coleman to step down and let another candidate step forward.
Maybe Jeff Johnson. Oh wait. How about Mary Jane Rachner. I bet her unfavorable ratings aren’t as high as Coleman’s.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Trompo:
Coleman’s numbers, as shown in a preceding post, are EXACTLY the same as Saint Paul of Wellstone in Feb 2002. Strange…I don’t remember you libs howling that the Saint Paulie girl was in “big trouble”!
The more IMPORTANT part of the polling numbers are the negatives of Franken-fraud and how he has such an abysmally rotten favorable number. Nobody likes Angry Al. Nobody.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:38 pm
By the way, Trompo…the “IR” dropped the “I” a number of years ago. Maybe you should extract your head from kissing Al’s flabby butt long enough to see the REAL world as it exists TODAY.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I predict that Senator Norm Coleman will be re-elected in 2008 and Trompo will still be an idiot.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Most Minnesotans want us to leave Iraq, Senator Coleman by his voting record does not share that view.
October 1st, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Trompo. I don’t think Jeff or Mary Jane is the answer. There is only one person that can step in for Norm and do the job. Mark Kennedy!
Special note to Woodbury Conservative. Tell me again who won the last Republican primary for AG in Woodbury? Hint, it wasn’t Jeff Johnson. Talk about idiocy. You got an entire town behind you on that one!
October 1st, 2007 at 12:54 pm
I do love to see classic Kool-Aid drinkers like Trompo and Thomas Lee are here today. Try to use a few ounces of thought and consider:
I don’t think there is ONE comment that DOESN’T want the troops out of Iraq. Or Afghanistan. NONE.
But we refuse to be like you…cut-and-runners who want Iraq to descend into a cess pool of violence (sorta like a DFL convention, with a bit more blood). Coleman’s positions are the same as Minnesotans…don’t leave until the job is done.
Not cut-and-run. Not retreat-and-defeat. Not like the DFL.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Alow:
Reckon YOU can’t count EITHER. According to the SoS website, Johnson won Woodbury. Try counting all 13 precincts, feces for brains!
Oops…another lie from a DFLer. What a shock!
October 1st, 2007 at 1:22 pm
“How can Norm Coleman be the DFL nominee when more than 34% view him unfavorably?”
LMAO… where to begin… the DFLers could never find a candidate as qualified as Norm Coleman… that’s why he’s the GOPs candidate.
The lib is dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb dumb.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Most Minnesotans do want us to leave Iraq. But most do not want to cut off funding for soldiers in Iraq. Moreover, most do not want the U.S. to surrender to Al Queda. Moreover yet, most do not want us to surrender Al Queda and leave Iraq to suffer genocide.
… the “most” do not include Democrats, who are on record saying they want unilateral surrender, and are quite comfortable with genocide.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
… Norm has voted consistently with most Minnesotans.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I’ll be sorry to see Angry Al go. I was counting on him to provide comedic relief for the duration.
Not that bashing scumbag ambulance chasing lawyers like Ceresi is without it’s pleasures, but when it comes to big news meltdowns, well Al had real promise.
Anyone want to bet that Al DOES NOT jump on the first plane back to NYC dierctly after he has his hopes dashed upon the rocks?
October 1st, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Swiftee:
It would be interesting, if some enterprising young GOPer tracked down if Angry Al actually SOLD his posh Manhatten digs or if he still owns it. Betcha he still owns it.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
I think Kathy Saltzman should run for the Senate.
October 1st, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Gosh Dave. That’s quite a response.
Anderson beat Johnson in 56A (Colby Lakes and Wedgewood) which is supposedly the smartest and most educated part of Woodbury. Johnson manages to carry 56B by 148 votes.
I know those results would make me proud to be a Woodbury Republican! I am sure all those smart Woodbury residents very carefully and thoughtfully reviewed the qualifications, experience and views of the candidates before making their choice.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Johnson won the 13 Woodbury precincts 1308-1295.
You said: “Tell me again who won the last Republican primary for AG in Woodbury? Hint, it wasn’t Jeff Johnson.”
You display all the intelligence of the common housefly.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I guess just under half of us republicans in Woodbury are crazy.
But good lord, did 42% of us who voted in the AG primary actually think the crazy Sharon Anderson would be a better AG than Jeff Johnson? There’s no cross-over voting in this state, right? We should all hold our heads in shame over that one. Guess it should have been a hint as to what was to come in November….and will come again next year….
October 1st, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Nice Dave. Any comment on the intelligence of the block of 1295 voters in Woodbury? Do they have more or less intelligence than a common housefly?
October 1st, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Alow what cracks me up is your reaction like you are offended he said you have the intelligence of a house fly when you go on to tell us how a certain block in Woodbury “is supposedly the smartest and most educated part of Woodbury”.
Like you would even have a clue.
So where were you the previous 3 elections when the democRats got their asses handed to them on a silver platter?
The liberals get one election out of the last 5 that went well for them and they think they have a mandate!
I believe the democrats will do better on a national level, but I think locally in MN the DFL is in hot water with all the stunts they have been pulling since elected.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Franken is a newly minted candidate without any of the voting baggage every incumbent carries. Negatives that high for a novice are remarkable and a reflection solely on Franken’s persona as seen by the electorate. They don’t like him.
Dear Lord, please let Franken be the DFL candidate this November. Please, please, please.
Amen.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Alow, can you tell me then what happened to Mr. Hatch?
How about Wetterling? How about Rowley? Do you know what happened to “Mom”?
Feel free to go back to your internet porn you whiny liberal bitch.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:23 pm
The Hatch team defeated themselves by Judi’s dumbass interview and Hatch’s even worse response. Erase those events from happening and Hatch would have won the election by 3,000-6,000 votes and Pawlenty would be driving the McCain bus today.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Senator Coleman is the one drinking the Kool-Aid from the Bush administration. He keeps supporting a war that his constituents oppose and one that is draining our country of money and morale.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Uh… 1) Democrats are draining our country of money and morale…
2) The Hatch team defeated themselves by running a piss poor, corrupt and dishonest candidate. Dutcher’s interview didn’t help. Neither did Hatch’s intimidation of a judge. Or his temper tantrum with a reporter… or his television ad pointing out all the Minnesota laws he wasn’t enforcing as the State’s highest law enforcement agent.
Hatch was an asshole. So is Franken.
October 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Senator Coleman is voting consistently with the will of Minnesotans, and Americans… who do not support cutting off funds for soldiers in the field, and do not support a unilateral surrender to Al Queda in Iraq.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Alow:
Again, I proved you lied through your teeth. Johnson won Woodbury. Of course, lying for you and your DFL Kool-Aid drinkers is pretty much par-for-the-course.
But if you want to play this little game, called cherrypicking-the-data, how’s about we look at Mad Mike Hatch? Poor Mikey couldn’t beat Becky Lourey in three precincts in HD08B! Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle! Reckon your candidate was pretty pathetic, not to win every precinct in the State, huh?
(If you want to check, put down your kool-aid, pull your head out of your arse, and look at the results from Sandstone, Pine City, and Munich Twp)
October 1st, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Good lord. There is just a little difference between the Hatch/Lourey race and the Johnson/Anderson race. Lourey actually campaigned and spent money in her attempt to beat Hatch. Can’t really say the same about Sharon.
October 1st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
. . .or Johnson for that matter.
Bahdump….
I’ll be here all week folks.
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:54 am
Alow and the rest of you who voted for Lori Swanson must be real proud – since taking office Swanson has been mired in controversy and rancor.
Swanson’s first major misstep was to keep former Attorney General Mike Hatch around the office -”Hatch looked like he couldn’t let go, and Lori appeared not ready for prime time”.
Then over thirty employees left the office since Swanson took over from Hatch in January.
Then she fired assistant Attorney General KariJo Ferguson, a ten-year veteran of the office – a talented attorney who had received a commendation and a raise on March 25 and competently argued a case for the Attorney General before the Court of Appeals – only to be fired on April 17.
Basically Swanson has created a climate of “political patronage, fear, intimidation and humiliating working conditions.”
Also Swanson’s office has bee accused of violating federal labor law.
Your hope that Swanson would be a more stable, ethical, and competent Attorney General appears to be misplaced.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:20 am
“Your hope that Swanson would be a more stable, ethical, and competent Attorney General appears to be misplaced.”
She’s a Democrat. Any idea that a Democrat could be “stable, ethical and competent” is misplaced.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:24 am
Didn’t the MN House unanimously call for an investigation and hearings regarding Lori Swanson’s hiring and employment practices within the office of the Attroney General?
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
but who’s to say that Al will WIN the DFL Nomination?
i think a lot of people aren’t taking Ceresi as seriously as they should
i know i don’t give a crap about Al
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Kevin’s got a point. Al may not win the nomination. But as of now, he’s by far the front runner. Ceresi may catch him… he’s caught a lot of ambulances, so we know he’s fast… but money’s on Franken right now. … lot’s of money… almost entirely from Hollywood Leftists and Hamptons trust funds.