KSTP writes on Survey USA’s latest poll:
Minnesota’s two highest-profile political races are too close to call, according to our exclusive new SurveyUSA poll.
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Coleman leads 41 percent to 40 percent over Franken — a miniscule lead well within the margin of error.
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…Franken has the momentum. One month ago he trailed by seven points. Now he trails just by one.
Many polls showed a convention bounce for McCain, post-convention. Coleman, despite all of his face time at the RNC, goes the other direction.
It’s poignant as Survey USA generally has leaned against Franken more compared to other surveys. All recent polls have shown Franken leading or showing positive momentum.
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This is awesome news for workers, families, children, and women’s rights!! Al needs to poor it on now and ride the wave. No 4th quarter prevent defense! Families and people who work for a living cannot afford four more years of Normie!
Great news, Alec
Oops, I meant pour it on, not poor it on.
“This is awesome news for workers” - if you are a federal employee. As for everyone else, there will be a scarcity of private sector jobs if the Dems control all three houses.
“for families” - for lower income families, perhaps. For our middle class and beyond, they will have less to spend on education, food, transportation, clothing and savings.
“for children” - again, for lower income, it would be good news. For all others, it will be a shift of wealth away from them, regardless of what they try to message.
“and women’s rights” - you mean abortion. For women who want fulfilling private sector career opportunities, there could be fewer. For families who may want a spouse to have the flexibility of a stay-at-home parent, it will be made more difficult by the increased tax burden.
You were partially right, Alec.
DantheMan,I agree 100%
Your 100% accurate predictions say…
“there will be a scarcity of private sector jobs if the Dems control all three houses”
“they will have less to spend on education, food, transportation, clothing and savings.”
“it will be a shift of wealth away from them, regardless of what they try to message”
“For women who want fulfilling private sector career opportunities, there could be fewer”
“it will be made more difficult by the increased tax burden”
Everyone knows the Republican party, right wing radio, Republican cable news pundits, and especially Minnesota Republican bloggers have unmatched predictive skills, as you have soundly proven with your 100% correct comments.
Anything we Republicans did not correctly predict are not our fault, because we are consistently correct. These were only things that nobody could anticipate except for people who disagree with Minnesota Republican bloggers. We are the party of personal responsibility and ownership society, so we Republicans have done nothing wrong.
It is the TRACK RECORD of the Minnesota Republican bloggers that allows us to tell people predictive results of ANY policy correctly, consistently, time and time again. We are the oracles, and have been spot-on every time.
Everyone knows that anyone who disagrees with Republican predictions are just partisan Liberals who are stupid and lazy, so they do not matter. They are wrong 100% of the time anyway.
Great Job Minnesota Republican blogger DantheMan
“This is awesome news for workers” - if you are a federal employee. As for everyone else, there will be a scarcity of private sector jobs if the Dems control all three houses.
Clinton produce 23 million jobs. Bush and the republican controlled congress had zero net gain in jobs their first term. That hasn’t happened since Hoover. Bush’s second term has been a little better 4 million jobs. That number is likely to change though, we’ve still on 98 days left of the chucklehead.
“for families” - for lower income families, perhaps. For our middle class and beyond, they will have less to spend on education, food, transportation, clothing and savings.
Under Obama’s tax plan would put over 1,100 dollars into the pockets of middle income individuals and families. Of course you knew this but choose to mislead for some reason. McCain’s doing the same thing so who can blame you.
“for children” - again, for lower income, it would be good news. For all others, it will be a shift of wealth away from them, regardless of what they try to message.
You seem to be saying lower income a lot. Define that. Anything under 5 million a year?
“and women’s rights” - you mean abortion. For women who want fulfilling private sector career opportunities, there could be fewer. For families who may want a spouse to have the flexibility of a stay-at-home parent, it will be made more difficult by the increased tax burden.
With jobs disappearing to the tune of 600,000 in the last eight months, if the present policies are continued then there will undoubtedly be less opportunities. That’s why Obama, with a new approach is needed in the White House.
DTM,
You must think of lower class as anyone below $250k per year, because if you make less than $250 you would be seriously uniformed or an outright idiot to vote for McCain. Hell, maybe you are like McCAin and think of less than 5 million as being poor.
The bottom line is that Dems are pro labor and for jobs with good wages and good benefits. Repubs are for cheap labor, whether here or overseas, and no benefits. The redistirubution of wealth to the top 1% and to big corporations has not trickled down, except for investment in China and Mexico. Wages and benefits are at an all time low, while the top 1% is going gang busters. Supply side economics works for the top 1% and leaves the other 99% behind.
Labor doesn’t create good jobs. Labor creates an environment where someone who is represented by a union is likely to get a job that already existed, instead of the guy who chose not to pay union dues.
If I am a business who makes widgets, and I can sell those widgets for $10 each, then I need the cost of making the widget to be no more than $9.99 each, or it doesn’t make alot of sense for me to be in the widget business.
If Labor causes my cost to make a widget to be $11, then I’ll raise my price of each widget to, say, $11.50.
Crap! The market price for widgets is still $10. The ones made in Canada, China, or Mexico sell for $10. So I get out of the widget business, and we’re all worse off for it.
Define the classes? I’m not going to bit. I want Obama to define them before I do. It is only fair — after all, he is the one running for President.
Labor creates jobs by increasing the money in the pockets of those who work for a living. DtM, when the middle class prospers, everyone prospers. If you make widgets, then you have to have customers who can afford to buy widgets. Tax cuts for the wealthy do nothing to help the working class.
14% for Dean Barkley is not worth a mention? Hack
We’ve experienced the results for republican control for 6 of the last 8 years, dems deserve the same opportunity. Divided govt accomplishes little and people are confused about who to blame. As this chart ranking presidential success shows, the best presidents usually had the support of their party in control of congress. (btw- how is it that Reagan and Bush 41 rate so much better than Clinton?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidents_and_control_of_congress
Also, as this nifty calculator shows, a middle class family like mine will save about $1000 under Obama’s tax proposal, which is about $200 more than we would with Mccain. And Obama gives us the added benefit of greater deficit reduction. http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/
DantheMan, you just keep repeating Republican talking points, but you have nothing to back them up. The fact is that the economy does better with Democratic presidents. Democratic presidents create far more private sector jobs than Republican presidents do.
Obama’s plans, if not undercut by Republican Elitists… will serve us the best.
Dantheman — - do you have problems with complex tasks?
(Aside from math).
That “having less to spend” canard is pretty lame. Did you come out of private institutions, or the public school system?
If the money is spent for education, etc on the state level, it means that it is SPENT on education, etc.
So it is still spent. Just not through the same mechanism as if each person has to pay out of pocket each time to educate their kids?
Why do you hate education so? Has it served you SO, SO poorly?
Women’s Rights? Are you somehow thinking this is ONLY rights to abortion? How obtuse. Or do you oppose all rights for women?
As far as abortion, why do YOU know better than a woman who makes her ow decisions? Is this a thing that people engage in lightly, in your mind?
Gosh, now everyone will want one.
Obviously, you are concerned about having to possibly pay to educate, if those women bring a disadvantaged child int the world!
Coleman trying to remake himself? Into what THIS time?
What brilliant thing has Normy done? Years ago, as a Dem mayor of St Paul - he brought hockey back at a price.
So what? Can the average family afford to attend?
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WHY - after 8 years,
would we want 4 MORE of the same stodgy dullness
that McCain will provide?
The insipid grin of a Normy Coleman for another SIX?????
McCain needs fluff - an unknown woman radical to prance about as though SHE is running for president,
to get any attention for his campaign.
We’ve had 8 years of the ignorant, stubborn child in office.
McCain has sold his soul to be the same, in order to get the nomination.
He hasn’t looked like any virile “alpha male” standing there next to Palin.
McCain’s promised us experience - and then picks up with a running mate who doesn’t know the office she is running for - DOES????
Yeah, that makes McCain look manly all right!!!
A running mate who doesn’t even know what the “Bush Doctrine” is?
Hey, its been in all the papers. But she can’t even admit she’s clueless.
McCain is running from behind the tight skirt of a woman.
What’s Normy going give you - a tight skirt too?
Why do you all leave Dean Barkley out of your mix? Have any of you talked to Dean? Do you only think that either a Democrat or Republican has THE answer? We need a change in office. Democrats and Republicans will just spew what ever it takes to get elected and once there they will be forced to listen to their handlers. Special Interests has a hold on our government like never before and it time we cut those strings and bring government back into sanity. I want a leader that will look to the future of this State and the future of this country. I don’t want to burden my son and his children with more debt than he will already have by the time he enters adulthood. I don’t believe that any of the 2 candidates care about thier children’s future because they are well off and can hand their children a silver platter. Yes, I would benefit from Obama’s plan. I am barely squeeking by. Why would I want to vote for someone that doesn’t give a rats butt about my situation? I’m of no political value to either of them. Dean? I am of political value. I would love to hear more about Dean and what others think of him. Same for David Dillon in the 3rd District. They are for real change. I am for doing what it takes to get this country back on track.