Poll: Obama has 11-point lead in Minnesota

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http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/30070414.html

A new poll shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama holding an 11-point lead over Republican John McCain in Minnesota.

The telephone poll, done for CNN and Time Magazine by Opinion Research Corp., has Obama ahead by 54 percent to 43 percent among likely voters.

Respondents were asked whom they would back in a head-to-head matchup and also were asked whom they supported when other party candidates were factored in. Obama's lead was roughly the same in each case.

The poll was conducted Sunday through Tuesday and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

[zazen]

1. will this help Franken unseat Coleman? I hope so n/t

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2. Coleman's been absolutely pounding Al with terrible attack ads.

Taking stuff he's said over his career (and I'll admit, not all of it has been simple innocent satire) and just bashing him relentlessly. Footage exists of Al speaking with anger and emotion at a rally, so they show that in the background and question his temperament to be a Senator. Polls have showed the race essentially tied, but all these attacks are probably keeping Al from having that same 11-point lead Obama does, and may just enable Norm "Chicklet Teeth" Coleman to squeak by.