Bachmann - 44%
Tinklenberg - 33%
Anderson - 8%
Undecided - 15%
Generally speaking, an incumbent polling below 50% is thought to be in danger of losing their seat because the expectation is that undecideds break heavily towards the challenger. This poll has Bachmann a full six points below the 50% threshold - an extremely weak position for an incumbent this late in the cycle. The poll (like the DCCC poll) also shows a very high percentage of undecided voters, more than enough to make up the gap between Bachmann and Tinklenberg.
If a Bachmann internal poll shows the Kissy Monster in this weak of a position, we must really have a shot at winning this seat. I mean, how bad is it if Bachmann can’t even cook up some numbers that put her over 50? No wonder Republicans I talk to are openly nervous about Bachmann’s prospects. The real loser here, however, is Erik Paulsen. Valuable reasources that could be going to the 3rd CD are being redirected the the 6th. The Paulsen campaign must be furious.
Yeah. And I seriously doubt Anderson will score as good as the 2006 IP candidate. He’s not being included in many debates and doesn’t have the IP endorsement, he doesn’t even have the 2006 candidates endorsement. I’d be surprised if Anderson gets more then 1 percent of the vote.
Add that to Tinklenberg’s total and you’ve got almost exactly the same poll as the DCCC’s poll.
Republicans love them some hate. Let’s all stand back and watch them disintegrate.
After seeing the most McCarthyesque statement I have seen in politics since the 1950s, I tried to contact Bachmann’s offices in D.C. and two Minnesota cities, but the voice mailboxes were all full. So, I tried to send her an email, but she doesn’t take emails from outside her district. Although I’m a Texan who’s contributed to Mccain and attended his events, the choice of Palin and the seriously rightward turn of his campaign had me on the fence. Bachmann knocked me off it; the GOP has turned just plain too nutty for me. How is it that the culture of the Party has emitted the likes of these two women, policy lightweights whose primary expertise seems to be spewing venom while smiling — with good hair. No one I know of thinks of Minnesota in these terms. Help yourself and help your country Minnesota — turn her out.
Sounds like Fargo, seems like personal decency far gone. That’s what Palin and Bachmann represent to the nation.
Bachmann has a youtube problem
Bachmann looks quite disturbed and has those “crazy eyes” of an extremist. Anyone that far right is so dangerously polarizing and not a true representative of Minnesota. Time to go Michele. We don’t need the embarrassment of you anymore.