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MPR Poll Results and Methodology - Senate race
QUESTION: I am going to read a list of potential candidates for the 2008 election. Do you recognize the name and, if so, do you have a favorable, unfavorable, or neutral opinion of that person?
| Option |
Recognize favorable |
Recognize unfavorable |
Recognize neutral |
Don't recognize |
Norm Coleman |
43% |
25% |
29% |
3% |
Al Franken |
29% |
32% |
18% |
21% |
Mike Ciresi |
18% |
13% |
34% |
35% |
QUESTION: If the 2008 election for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat were held today, for whom would you vote if the choice were between Al Franken, the DFL candidate, and Norm Coleman, the Republican candidate?
| Option |
State |
Men |
Women |
DFL |
GOP |
IND |
Metro |
Rest of state |
Coleman |
54% |
57% |
51% |
28% |
88% |
49% |
49% |
61% |
Franken |
32% |
31% |
33% |
57% |
4% |
33% |
38% |
24% |
Undecided |
14% |
12% |
16% |
15% |
8% |
18% |
13% |
15% |
QUESTION: If the 2008 election for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat were held today, for whom would you vote if the choice were between Mike Ciresi, the DFL candidate, and Norm Coleman, the Republican candidate?
| Option |
State |
Men |
Women |
DFL |
GOP |
IND |
Metro |
Rest of state |
Coleman |
52% |
55% |
49% |
26% |
85% |
47% |
49% |
56% |
Ciresi |
29% |
25% |
33% |
55% |
2% |
25% |
33% |
23% |
Undecided |
19% |
20% |
18% |
19% |
13% |
28% |
18% |
21% |
QUESTION: How would you rate the performance of Norm Coleman as Minnesota's U.S. senator?
| Option |
State |
Men |
Women |
DFL |
GOP |
IND |
Excellent |
9% |
10% |
8% |
1% |
18% |
8% |
Good |
39% |
40% |
38% |
31% |
52% |
34% |
Fair |
32% |
34% |
30% |
35% |
26% |
34% |
Poor |
18% |
15% |
21% |
32% |
1% |
20% |
Undecided |
2% |
14% |
3% |
1% |
3% |
4% |
QUESTION: How would you rate the performance of Norm Coleman as Minnesota's U.S. senator?
| Option |
State |
Men |
Women |
DFL |
GOP |
IND |
Excellent |
9% |
10% |
8% |
1% |
18% |
8% |
Good |
39% |
40% |
38% |
31% |
52% |
34% |
Fair |
32% |
34% |
30% |
35% |
26% |
34% |
Poor |
18% |
15% |
21% |
32% |
1% |
20% |
Undecided |
2% |
14% |
3% |
1% |
3% |
4% |
QUESTION: How would you rate the performance of Amy Klobuchar as Minnesota's U.S. senator?
| Option |
State |
Men |
Women |
DFL |
GOP |
IND |
Excellent |
20% |
16% |
24% |
32% |
7% |
18% |
Good |
36% |
31% |
41% |
48% |
25% |
32% |
Fair |
20% |
25% |
15% |
10% |
29% |
25% |
Poor |
9% |
10% |
8% |
4% |
16% |
8% |
Undecided |
15% |
18% |
12% |
6% |
23% |
17% |
QUESTION: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?
Option |
State |
Men |
Women |
DFL |
GOP |
IND |
Approve |
29% |
24% |
34% |
39% |
20% |
24% |
Disapprove |
55% |
63% |
47% |
45% |
63% |
61% |
Not sure |
16% |
13% |
19% |
16% |
17% |
15% |
HOW THE POLL WAS CONDUCTED
The Mason-Dixon Minnesota Public Radio poll was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. of Washington, D.C. from May 7 through May 9, 2007. A total of 625 registered Minnesota voters were interviewed statewide by telephone. All stated they vote regularly in state elections.
Those interviewed were selected by the random variation of the last four digits of telephone numbers. A cross-section of exchanges was utilized in order to ensure an accurate reflection of the state. Quotas were assigned to reflect voter turn-out by county.
The margin for error, according to standards customarily used by statisticians, is no more than plus or minus 4 percentage points. This means that there is a 95 percent probability that the "true" figure would fall within that range if the entire population were sampled. The margin for error is higher for any subgroup, such as a regional or gender grouping.
SAMPLE FIGURES:
| Men 305 (49%) | Women 320(51%) |
| Hennepin/Ramsey Counties | 210 interviews |
| Twin Cities Suburbs | 150 interviews |
| Rochester/Southeast | 70 interviews |
| Southwest Minnesota | 60 interviews |
| Northwest Minnesota | 65 interviews |
| Duluth/Northeast | 70 interviews |
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