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.

Author:: BMTN Staff
Publish date:: 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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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.

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."

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