In Minnesota, Obama Leads By Two
By Charles Lemos on August 20, 2008 at 1:55 AM in Barack Obama, John McCain, Minnesota
A new Survey USA poll in Minnesota shows Senator Obama leading Senator McCain by two points, 47% to 45%. Since that’s within the margin of error, the race in the Gopher state is effectively a dead heat.
On the plus side for Obama, Minnesota appears one place where Obama does not face a PUMA backlash. PUMA is a wide coalition of anti-Obama forces that coalesced out of the supporters of Senator Clinton. Obama has a comfortable nine point edge among women in Minnesota.
According to a KSTP exclusive new SurveyUSA poll, Barack Obama leads John McCain by two points, 47 to 45 percent in Minnesota.
That’s well within the three-point-eight percent margin of error. Four percent prefer another candidate. Only four percent are undecided.
The poll not only shows a close race, but also points again to Minnesota voters becoming increasingly polarized.
In the poll of 682 “likely voters,” McCain has the support of 89 percent of republicans. Obama garners support from 86 percent of democrats. McCain has a narrow two-point lead among independents.
McCain does have a bit of a gender-gap to contend with. He leads by three points among men, but Obama leads by nine points among women.
No matter how you analyze the numbers, they point to a close race in Minnesota just over 70 days until Election Day.
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