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Reuters poll says the 6th is close

Posted at 8:53 AM on October 4, 2006 by Tom Scheck

The Reuters poll says the race in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District is close. Republican Michele Bachmann leads DFLer Patty Wetterling by three percentage points. Here's the synopsis:

"MINNESOTA 6 - Republican Michele Bachmann leads Democrat Patty Wetterling 46-43 percent in the race to succeed Rep. Mark Kennedy, who is running for senator."

They polled 500 voters. It has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points. The story didn't say when the poll was in the field. Zogby says the poll was conducted September 25th to October 2nd.

Independence Party member John Binkowski is also running.

Here's a story on the poll.

And the details.

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