ND-Gov, ND-AL: nothing to see here

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!  ðŸ˜‰  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.