More Tuesday polling news, and it's not good for state and national Democrats, who have targeted Rep. Michele Bachmann in Minnesota's Congressional District 6. Bachmann's campaign, which has Gov. Palin's endorsement, has not even begun to break a sweat, yet the Republican leads her Democrat opponent State Sen, Tarryl Clark by nine points. To deepen the Dem's despair, Bachmann is sitting on a campaign chest overflowing with cash.
Hot Air's Ed Morrissey comments:
KSTP notes correctly that an incumbent under 50% in a poll is usually a red flag, but not when the main challenger is below 40%, and a three-way race makes that dynamic a little different anyway. They also correctly note that Bachmann hasn’t really begun to campaign, while Clark has TV ads running already...More here.
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Clark is a tax-raising Democrat, not exactly what MN-06 usually sends to Congress in any year. Bachmann just completed a big fundraising quarter that gives her a big war chest to fund those ads, which will flood the zone closer to the election.
KSTP also describes this result as putting Clark “within striking distance,” but nine points is a long distance to strike.
- JP
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