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STAR TRIBUNE: “COLEMAN WIDENS LEAD OVER FRANKEN, POLL FINDS”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | April 24, 2008
“Republican Sen. Norm Coleman has widened his lead over DFL challenger Al Franken, according to a telephone poll taken Tuesday of 500 likely Minnesota voters.
According to Rasmussen Reports poll results released today, 50 percent of the respondents said they favored Coleman for a second term in the U.S. Senate, while 43 percent said that they backed Franken.
The results were within the margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points, meaning that the contest may be more of a dead heat than the poll suggests.
And the poll didn’t test Coleman’s strength versus the other DFL challenger, University of St. Thomas professor Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, who is vying with Franken for the party’s endorsement at the DFL state convention in June.
But the numbers are going in the right direction for Coleman, who last month had a two-point lead over Franken in the same poll. The February Rasmussen Reports poll had Franken ahead of Coleman, 49 percent to 46 percent.” Source: Star Tribune, April 24, 2008
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April 24th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
The only poll that matters is in November.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Very true. This still shows Coleman is vulnerable and his lead increasing doesnt mean too much considering the election isnt for months.