Captain Ed notes that once again the Star-Tribune‘s Minnesota poll might as well be a DNC propaganda piece. The Minnesota Poll is consistantly one of the most singularly inaccurate polls in the country, and is a complete and utter waste of time. Every single time the methodology is completely and utterly flawed and the results are skewed so far towards the DFL that it’s ridiculous.
The Minnesota Poll exists solely to be a political tool for the DFL. It’s a partisan push poll, and the fact that it’s given the veneer of being anything else is an act of intellectual dishonesty.
The Minnesota Poll is admittedly awful, as evidenced by their sample indicated that both Kennedy and Pawlenty had 3-1 advantages over their Democratic rivals among 18-24-year-olds, the most Democratic demographic in the nation. Still, the fact that Pawlenty leads Hatch by two in the Minnesota Poll (putting it to the right of most Minnesota gubernatorial polls) somewhat blunts the usual GOP criticism of its Democratic bias.
Or indicates that their methodology is completely and totally screwed up… I’m guessing a little from Column A and a little from Column B.