Where can I get polls on how Al Franken is doing in MN?

[Darth_Ole]

Anyone have links?

[jean]

1. here's a Rasmussen poll from way back in mid-March ...

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008/election_2008_senate_races__1/mn_senate_poll_coleman_46_franken_36

I don't know of any more recent poll results (and I live in MN).

[rinsd]

3. I found one. He's only down 7!! (see post 2)

[rinsd]

2. Al has climbed to within 7 pts of Coleman (from 22 down)

Senator Al Franken? No Longer a Longshot

By Jon Wiener, TheNation.com. Posted August 6, 2007.

The latest poll of Minnesota voters shows Republican Senator Norm Coleman, up for re-election in 2008, with 49 per cent, and Democratic challenger Al Franken at 42 -- a seven-point spread. Four months ago, Coleman was ahead by 22. The reason for Coleman's shocking collapse in the polls? He's been supporting Bush on the war.

Any incumbent with less than 50 per cent in the polls a year before the election is considered to be in trouble. Coleman is in trouble, according to the SurveyUSA poll released July 30, especially with women, independents and Twin Cities voters.

Defeating Norm Coleman would be a particularly sweet victory for the anti-war movement. In his college days at Hofstra, Coleman was a prominent opponent of the Vietnam war. The school suspended him in 1970 for participating in a sit-in protesting the Kent State killings. He first won office in St. Paul as a Democrat, chaired the 1996 Senate campaign of Paul Wellstone, and then switched parties and ran for the Senate in 2002 against Wellstone. Wellstone died in a plane crash a week before that election, and Norm Coleman went to the Senate.

Coleman's support for the war has made him the target of both the national Democratic party and independent antiwar groups. The Democrats are already running a TV ad campaign criticizing him for opposing the troop pullout vote in the Senate on July 12. Al Franken ran a full-page newspaper ad highlighting the same vote. (He also has a terrific YouTube video, showing his mastery of the new medium -- he knows he's talking to one person at a time, rather than to 200 million at once.)

http://www.alternet.org/environment/58886/

[jean]

4. Much more recent and very satisfying news!