![]() Respondents reachable on a home telephone (39% of likely voters) were interviewed on their home telephone in the recorded voice of a professional announcer, using telephone sample of registered voters purchased from Aristotle in Washington DC. This research was conducted using blended sample, mixed mode. 8 general election or to have already cast their ballot. Of the adults, 660 were identified as being registered to vote of the registered voters, 586 were determined by SurveyUSA to be likely to vote in the Nov. SurveyUSA interviewed 750 adults from Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District from Oct. ![]() The poll included 35% Democrats, 33% Republicans and 28% independents. “When you look at the issues that are motivating the vote on one side the Democratic issues and on the other side the Republican issues, you can see how this becomes basically a toss-up,” he said. RELATED: KSTP/SurveyUSA poll: Abortion issue could influence voters on both sidesĪny way you slice the numbers, it points to a very close race, according to Schier. Among voters citing abortion, Craig leads by 55 points, 75% to 20% and Kistner leads among those citing the economy by 35 points, 63% to 28%. ![]() The two most important issues cited as factors influencing their vote are the economy at 28% and abortion at 23%, followed by inflation (18%), health care (8%) and crime (7%). Our 2022 poll also indicates a big gender gap similar to what we’ve seen in other races.Ĭraig leads by 16 points among women (53%-37%), while Kistner leads by 14 points among men (53%-39%). “Paula Overby needed to be in this survey, and it needed to be presented as the voters will find Paula Overby on the ballot because when they go in on Election Day, they’re not going to receive a special notice that, ‘Hey, by the way, this person is deceased,’” Schier told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS after analyzing the poll. He received nearly 25,000 votes, or nearly 6%. In 2020, another Legal Marijuana Now candidate, Adam Weeks, died not long before Election Day and his name remained on the ballot. The reason for that is voters at polling places will also not be notified the candidate is dead. Our poll includes her name as “being on the ballot” without telling respondents the candidate is dead. Legal Marijuana Now candidate Paula Overby died recently, too late in the campaign to remove her name from the ballot under state election law. Angie Craig, right, debate on Thursday, Oct. In a rush, Dowden shortened the name of Blaine’s planned speech from “Achievements of the Grand Old Party” to “Achievements of the GOP.Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Tyler Kistner, left, and incumbent Democratic Rep. “Abbreviate ’em, use initials, do anything, but hurry up!” came the reply. What shall I do?” Dowden asked his foreman. ![]() “My copy ends with ‘Grand Old Party,’ and I have two words left over after I’ve set the 10 lines. Dowden, a Cincinnati Gazette typesetter, with coining the initials after receiving a story about 1884 Republican presidential nominee James Blaine shortly before press time that ran too long. Safire’s Political Dictionary reports that the Republican’s GOP acronym began to appear in print in 1884. In his 1859 inaugural address, Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Beriah Magoffin proclaimed, “The grand old party has never changed its name, its purposes, or its principles, nor has it ever broken its pledges.” The following year a Democratic newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut, looked ahead to the presidential election of 1860 and warned that “this grand old party is divided and in danger of defeat.” The “grand old party” moniker was actually first adopted by the Republicans’ elder rival-the Democratic Party-which traced its roots back to Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.
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