Here Are The Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #18726

Geography Surveyed: Minnesota
Data Collected: 11/02/2011 - 11/06/2011
Release Date: 11/08/2011 12:10 PM ET
Sponsor: KSTP-TV Minneapolis

In Minnesota, DFL Incumbent U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar Has Double-Digit Advantage over Best-Known GOP Challengers; In Fight for North Star State's 10 Electoral Votes, Obama Defeats All Republican Comers, Though Romney Makes a Go of It. One year to Election Day, Incumbent U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar leads 2 well-known Minnesota Republicans by a dozen points, and leads lesser known Republicans 2:1, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KSTP-TV in Minneapolis St Paul. In head-to-head matchups today, 11/08/11, among MN registered voters, it is: * Klobuchar 49%, Tim Pawlenty 37%. * Klobuchar 50%, Norm Coleman 37% * Klobuchar 55%, Dan Severson 23%. * Klobuchar 56%, Joe Arwood 22%. In head-to-head match-ups for President of the United States, Barack Obama leads all Republican challengers, 1 by less than the 10 percentage points that Obama defeated John McCain by in 2008, the rest by more. Minnesota is a key battleground state that Obama needs to carry to keep the White House. At this hour: * Obama 45%, Mitt Romney 39%. * Obama 48%, Rick Perry 35%. * Obama 48%, Herman Cain 35%. * Obama 57%, Michele Bachmann 29%, largely unchanged from SurveyUSA polling released 05/24/11. * Obama 48%, Ron Paul 35%. Support for an amendment to the MN constitution, to re-define marriage, has nominally declined from an 11-point advantage 6 months ago to a 6-point advantage today. Cell-phone respondents and home-phone respondents included in this research. SurveyUSA interviewed 600 state of MN adults 11/02/11 through 11/07/11. Of the adults, 543 were registered to vote and were asked the substantive questions. The survey was conducted multi-mode. Respondents who use a home phone (78% of adults) were interviewed on their home phone in the voice of a professional announcer. Respondents who do not use a home phone (22% of adults) were shown a questionnaire on their smartphone, laptop, tablet or other electronic device. Interviews for this survey were conducted across 6 days and nights, at a time when Herman Cain was increasingly in the news. Respondents interviewed at the beginning of the field period would have not heard about possible Cain sexual misconduct; respondents interviewed at the end of the field period would have seen and heard from one of Cain's accusers.