As a former Minnesota who grew up near North Dakota, it’s odd that there are TWO polls out from North Dakota this past week. One a little less biased from the Fargo Forum, and one from the North Dakota United Transportation Union and conducted by Minnesota-based DFM Research.
No shocking information, except for the presidential results that already got press.
Fargo Forum/MSU-Moorhead; 606 LV; 10/6-8
Gov: Hoeven(R) 73 – Mathern(D) 18
House: Pomeroy(D) 60 – Sand(R) 28
Pres: Obama(D) 45 – McCain(R) 43
United Transportation Union; 504 RV*; 10/13-14
Gov: Hoeven(R) 66 – Mathern(D) 22
House: Pomeroy(D) 55 – Sand(R) 30
Pres: Obama(D) 44 – McCain(R) 41
(* All adults in ND are registered voters)
Downballot for the Democratic party in ND is a bit weak, but the open seat for state insurance commissioner is getting crazy! 😉 The 50-state strategy’s results will be telling in a state like North Dakota–that left to its own, with young people moving out, would probably become more and more red.
Per the Bismarck Tribune on Thursday:
More than 19,000 North Dakotans have voted already, Secretary of State Al Jaeger announced Thursday. The number of ballots cast in the 21 vote-by-mail counties is already 8,095. In 2004, 7,844 people cast vote-by-mail ballots in those 21 counties. So far, 11,116 people have voted by absentee ballot in the state’s 32 remaining counties. In 2004, 43,272 voted by absentee ballot.
R2K is doing some polls for Kos this week on ND. They should be interesting.
Out of curiosity, what’s making that race so crazy?