Poll shows Emmer, Dayton race is tight
Published 9:12 am Tuesday, August 31, 2010
By Mark Zdechlik, Minnesota Public Radio News
A new Minnesota Public Radio News/University of Minnesota poll on the governor’s race shows Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer running neck and neck.
Emmer and Dayton are deadlocked with 34 percent support. Independence Party candidate Tom Horner, with 13 percent support, significantly trails Dayton and Emmer, but with a little more than two months to go before Election Day, a lot of Minnesotans are still undecided.
Pollsters interviewed 750 likely voters last Wednesday through Sunday. The poll has a 5.3 percentage point margin of sampling error.