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E-mail of the day

Posted at 4:37 PM on July 19, 2006 by Tom Scheck (6 Comments)

Robert Fitzgerald, the Independence Party's endorsed candidate for the U.S. Senate, sent out an e-mail to supporters today. It details the campaign's events, etc. But then I noticed this little line about the recent Minnesota Poll sponsored by the Star Tribune:

Recently, the Star Tribune conducted a poll which had us polling at three percent! This is great news! The article and poll was carried by several news media outlets across Minnesota.

Hmmm. Robert maybe you don't want to be talking about your 3% poll result as great news especially since the poll's margin of error was 3.4%

Comments (6)

Write about it, talk about it, blog about it.

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The Star Tribune’s latest poll has us at 3% - that’s freaking incredible!

We almost beat the margin of error of 3.4%! So at worst we’re at -0.4%
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posted by Robert on 07.17.06 @ 8:27 AM

http://www.votefitzgerald.org/blog/?p=209

Tom, if you're going to go snark - go all out! ;)

Posted by rmf | July 19, 2006 9:37 PM

you sir, are an ambitious, glass is half full politician. You receive the "mad props" of the day as well.

Posted by tom scheck | July 19, 2006 11:12 PM

Is anyone else impressed that Tom Scheck of MPR has correctly used the term "mad props"?

Posted by MN Campaign Report | July 20, 2006 8:44 AM

Meh, not really. Have you ever met Tom in person? He's much more "hip" in person then his reporting voice on MPR would ever reveal.

Posted by blankout7 | July 20, 2006 11:58 AM

"Mad Props"? I had to break out my Guide to 20th Century Slang for that one.

If there's a margin of error on Fitzgerald's support, I'm guessing it runs the other way.

The Strib poll read to me like an electorate that's fed up with Bush. Too bad they didn't reveal how Ford Bell polled. That would have made it much easier to figure out how impressive Klobuchar's numbers were.

Posted by Mark Gisleson | July 20, 2006 12:03 PM

The most critical element of the poll for the Fitzgerald campaign was the #'s of the under 30's. The vertict is in young people think nothing of the DFL endorsed candidate. Those voters aren't gonna head to Kennedy when this thing is over.

The real question on the Fitzgerald campaign is can it ever get off the ground, I'm convinced when he gets out in the public, on TV and in the debates he has that undescribable thing that will launch him as far as a couple hundered thousand dollars can take him.

Posted by Mike Grimes | July 20, 2006 5:54 PM

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