Is Minnesota a battleground again?

A new SurveyUSA poll is the first to show the presidential race within single digits in Minnesota, with President Obama just six points ahead. Minnesota now ranks 11th on New York Times election blog FiveThirtyEight's list of tipping point states — putting it somewhere on the border between those states that the campaigns clearly need to attend to and those that might fall into the “optional” category.

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Updated:: Mar 8, 2018
Original:: Jul 24, 2012

Minnesota might be in play again in the 2012 race for the White House, New York Times election blog FiveThirtyEight reports.

Mitt Romney has slashed President Obama's lead from about 14 points to just 6, a SurveyUSA and KSTP poll shows.

That means Minnesota is more of a battleground state, FiveThirtyEight says. It lists Minnesota 11th on its battleground list. The Obama and Romney campaigns must now make tough decisions about how much to invest in Minnesota.

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In July, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney had good news to celebrate in Minneosta: he'd cut President Obama's lead in half, according to one poll. But a new SurveyUSA/KSTP poll shows Obama is back on safe ground in the state. The poll surveyed voters Sept. 6-9, right after the Democratic National Convention.

Republican Mitt Romney will begin running TV ads in Minnesota this weekend, with just over a week to go before the election, the Associated Press reports. Recent polls showed President Barack Obama with a solid lead in the state that has not voted for a Republican president since Richard Nixon in 1972.

A new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll among 800 likely Minnesota voters shows the presidential race for the state's 10 electoral votes is getting closer, with President Barack Obama drawing 47 percent to Romney's 44 percent. With just over a week before the election, the president's 3-point lead is within the poll's margin of error. In September, Obama held an 8-percentage point lead over his Republican challenger in the Minnesota Poll.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is coming to Minnesota for a fundraising appearance a few days before the Republican National Convention, MPR reports. Donors are being asked to give a minimum of $2,500 to attend an event at the Lafayette Club in Minnetonka Beach. Couples who give $50,000 can attend a private dinner at a private home in Shorewood.

GOP vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan rallied 6,500 people at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International AIrport on Sunday, trying to steal a Minnesota win for the Romney-Ryan ticket from Democrats, who have long said the state was safe for President Obama. Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton is expected back in Minnesota Sunday night for an appearance in St. Cloud.

If Mitt Romney is looking for a vice-presidential nominee that might also bring along votes from their home state, Tim Pawlenty might be a poor choice. So says the New York Times, which does a deep analysis on what it would actually take for Minnesota to go red in a presidential election for the first time since 1972. The key -- according to Times writer Michah Cohen -- is Blue Earth County.

President Barack Obama has won a second term as president of the United States, and Minnesota was among the states he won. In his speech well after midnight, Obama thanked Vice President Joe Biden, his family, and the greatest campaign team and volunteers "in the history of politics."

Some of Rick Santorum's Minnesota supporters say they'll vote for Mitt Romney but doubt they'll volunteer time to his campaign. One feels that Romney doesn't need her help the way Santorum did. Soft support from Santorum Republicans may be more damaging to Romney in swing states than in Minnesota, which looks to be headed into the Obama column.

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