Breaking News!! Minnesota Poll for Governor

In another race that I have been watching, though not blogging about, some new poll numbers came out today from the Minnesota Star Tribune. The Minnesota Governor race is both significant and has been a key race in LGBT politics over the past week with the whole Target and Best Buy donation fiasco. Though I am not going to report on that topic in this post, I am reporting because of this. All of the candidates for governor (DFL and Independent) support gay marriage, only the Republican Tom Emmer does not support it. He has been very outspoken about his opposition to marriage equality for Minnesotans. This race is important this year, because the DFL controlled legislature is very marriage equality friendly, and with a pro-marriage equality person in the governors mansion, we could possibly see a legalization of gay marriage in Minnesota within the next few years!!!

Here is the poll results from MST. As you can see, there is not one DFL candidate yet, as the primary for the party is in two weeks. The DFL candidates are Dayton, Kelliher, and Entenza.

Dayton	Emmer	Horner	Undecided	Other
40%	30%	13%	17%	1%

Kelliher	Emmer	Horner	Undecided	Other
38%	29%	13%	18%	1%

Entenza	Emmer	Horner	Undecided	Other
36%	31%	15%	17%	1%

DEMOGRAPHICS OF SUPPORT

Dayton    Kelliher   Entenza     Emmer     Horner Total 40% 38% 36% 29% 13% Gender           Male 35% 32% 31% 31% 18% Female 44% 45% 41% 28% 9% Age           18-34 37% 38% 36% 29% 12% 35-44 28% 29% 34% 35% 14% 45-64 44% 42% 37% 29% 14% 65+ 50% 42% 36% 28% 12% Education           High school or less 42% 41% 36% 26% 14% Some college 36% 33% 32% 28% 15% College graduate and above 40% 40% 40% 35% 11% Household income           Less than $30,000 42% 44% 35% 20% 15% $30,000 to $49,999 45% 39% 38% 25% 19% $50,000 to $74,999 42% 43% 36% 33% 9% $75,000 and above 33% 33% 34% 42% 14% Party identification           Republican 7% 6% 6% 72% 9% Democratic 81% 85% 79% 4% 3% Independent 29% 26% 25% 20% 30% Geography           7-county metro 39% 38% 36% 33% 12% Rest of state 40% 40% 36% 26% 15%