Wetterling to make announcement on Friday
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Patty Wetterling will make an announcement on Friday. Asked whether she is running for the 6th District, an aide said only, "we'll see you Friday," according to MPR's Tom Scheck.
Check and Balances (registration required) reports on internal polling from the Wetterling camp:
In a poll of 400 Sixth Congressional Districts residents with a margin of error of +/-4%, Wetterling beats all comers in a head-to-head match-up. The poll was weighted heavily in favor of Republican voters with 40% represented and only 28% being Democratic voters. Of the respondents 42% percent self-identified as Conservative, 24% self identified as Liberal and 29% self-identified as Moderates.
In hard name identification Wetterling polled at 76% while Elwyn Tinklenberg barely made double digits at 15%. In the break down:
Of the respondents, only 4% had never heard of Wetterling and 22% did not know enough to form an opinion, compared to 45% had never heard of Tinklenberg, and of those who had, 40% did not know enough to form an opinion.
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