MN: Survey USA: McCain 47, Obama 46

[kevinatcausa]

The whole bunch of Senate polls from MN just confuse me.  If there's a third party candidate who has frequently been pulling double digits in some polls, how come several of the other polling firms only list Franken and Coleman as choices?  Do they really expect anything close to an accurate result?

The jump in Barkley's support isn't really much of a surprise though.  The poll was conducted in the middle of the bailout failure/resurrection, and I can see a good chunk of voters becoming disenchanted with both the Democrats and the Republicans from that. 

[kevinatcausa]

Regional definitions are here.  In particular, for MN the "twin cities" region include several suburban districts along with the cities themselves.

It looks like in 2004 the "Twin Cities " as a whole went only 54-46 for Kerry by SurveyUSA's definition.