Senate race tight in red-and-blue Minnesota

[Omaha Steve]

Full story: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060727-112155-7283r.htm

Senate race tight in red-and-blue Minnesota

By Donald Lambro
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 28, 2006

The battle for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat is turning into one of the closer races of the 2006 election season in a state once ruled by Democrats but trending Republican in recent years.
Even Minnesota's Democratic state chairman, Brian Melendez, told The Washington Times that "this state is about evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. It has become more conservative-leaning in recent years. It's not a state that either party can take for granted."
A little more than three months before Election Day, independent voter polls show Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy trailing Democratic Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar by five percentage points in a contest for the seat held by retiring Sen. Mark Dayton, a Democrat. Mr. Kennedy calls Mr. Dayton "a fringe liberal who got nothing done and wasted the Senate seat for six years."
A SurveyUSA election poll of 700 Minnesotans showed Ms. Klobuchar leading Mr. Kennedy 47 percent to 42 percent. Independence Party candidate Robert Fitzgerald, who could be the spoiler in the race, drew 8 percent. The poll, conducted last week for several statewide television stations, has a margin of error of four percentage points.
Earlier this month, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published its Minnesota Poll showing Ms. Klobuchar with a 19-point lead. The Kennedy campaign said the poll has a notorious history of being "skewed against Republicans."

[Cha]

1. They already have one red

idiot why do they need another. Minnesota, the land of Paul Wellstone!

[Dover]

2. Washington Times? This is bs.

Minnesota is not a 'tight' red/blue ratio. It's primarily blue and 'tight' races are often the model that is indicative of voter fraud. They want you to believe the GOP is more prevalent than it is......easier to steal. The most recent example is Mexico. But that is pretty much the model used in most of the stolen U.S. elections as well.

[tritsofme]

3. Very true

Any election a Democrat loses or does not win in a landslide is indicative of vote fraud.

[TygrBright]

4. Mark Kennedy is a complete waste of oxygen. n/t

[MrsT]

5. Who does the Independence candidate pull votes from?

[Lindacooks]

6. The Dem.

Always. That's how Pawlenty (R-Weasel) won, by the vote being split between Humphrey and Penney.

[MrsT]

8. That is really annoying.

You would think progressive voters would have learned the perils of sacrificial voting by now.

[Lindacooks]

9. Oh, I know it's annoying. I hate that little weasel with all my heart.

And he's ruined this state, by giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy, while cutting education funding, slashing aid to child abuse prevention agencies, and slashing health insurance for the working poor. Not to mention cutting funds for snow removal in winter, so MNDOT has less to work on and the roads are more treacherous than usual after a snowstorm.

[Lindacooks]

7. The Strib poll is the accurate one.

Despite having raised only about half the money that that repuke Kennedy has, Ms. Klobuchar has anything from a 9 to a 20 point lead.

[leesa]

10. Mark Dayton was such a courageous Senator. It's really a shame to lose

him.