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Breakdown of poll findings on presidential race

Article by: Star Tribune
Updated: October 28, 2012 - 5:36 AM

The Star Tribune Minnesota Poll surveyed 800 likely Minnesota voters Oct. 23-25. Respondents were reached on both landlines and cell phones. The poll has a margin of sampling error of 3.5 percentage points, plus or minus.

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martin68Oct. 28, 12 7:38 AM

Star Tribune polls have been notoriously bad. In 1998, they were predicting that Skip Humphrey would win. He finished 3rd. One item missing. How many democrats, republicans and independents were surveyed? Often these polls will oversample democrats.

dlhoff16Oct. 28, 12 7:40 AM

Interesting poll results. It seems odd (actually impossible) that Obama leads by 7 points among those making less than 50K a year, 5 points among those making more than 50K a year, yet by only 3 points overall. I guess that those making exactly 50K a year must overwhelmingly support Romney.

dalyfanOct. 28, 1210:02 AM

This poll is flawed. They over sampled Dems, 38-33 and over sampled Metro voters who heavily support Obama (57-39). I think Romney is really leading in this state.

roballen13Oct. 28, 12 4:15 PM

"I think Romney is really leading in this state." hahaha In your dreams. Actually these polls are very inaccurate and do not properly include cellphone only households as they claim. If waited properly they would show Obama up by at least 10 points in Minnesota.

mspencerOct. 29, 12 3:57 PM

I'm curious as to how many people responded that they are voting for someone other than Obama or Romney and how come those answers aren't listed in the poll results anywhere? It seems pretty amateurish to not even list everyone who is on the ballot, and then to just ignore their responses entirely. I hope no one is taking the STrib seriously at this point - this seems more like a ploy for attention than a legitimate piece of news or journalism.

jamesiveyOct. 30, 1211:13 PM

It makes no sense for the Star Tribune to include Gary Johnson, but leave out the Green Party's Jill Stein. They're both running national races, and are both on enough ballots to win the electoral college. With that said, what's even more disappointing is that the survey included "One of the other party tickets" as an option on question #1, but then the Star Tribune chose to display the results as "Undecided". We're not undecided; we just don't want Obama, Romney or Johnson. Voters are tired of candidates that ignore climate change, student debt, foreclosures, unending war and 50 million people without healthcare. We're voting for Jill Stein. Include her in the next poll.