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Poll: Majority Of Minnesotans Want Coleman To Concede Defeat To Franken
TPM Election Central — ... A new Rasmussen poll reaffirms that Minnesotans want their disputed Senate race to finally end and for Norm Coleman to concede defeat to Al Franken, with the result still bottled up over six months after Election Day. ...

Rasmussen: 54% of Minn. Voters Say Coleman Should Concede
Ace of Spades HQ — Rasmussen: 54% of Minn. Voters Say Coleman Should Concede The numbers are meaningless, beyond, the "Huh. That sucks" value. Still it's interesting to see how things have changed. Coleman came out of the election ahead and in December 67% of Minnesota voters expected that he would be the ultimate winner. 88% now say that Franken will win. Also: Fifty-four percent (54%) of Minnesota voters say Republican incumbent Norm Coleman should concede the race after months of legal challenges and let Al Franken be seated in the U.S. Senate. But 41% disagree. Predictably, the latest ...

Tuesday's campaign round-up
Political Animal — ... with evidence that he really did support President Obama's general-election campaign last year. * Even before the state Supreme Court's consideration of the case, a majority of Minnesotans want to see former Sen. Norm Coleman (R) concede to Al Franken immediately. The same Rasmussen poll showed a 67% majority wants to see Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) sign Franken's election certificate if Coleman loses at the state Supreme Court. * Merrick Alpert, a former aide to Al Gore and an Air Force officer in Bosnia, announced yesterday that ...

Polling and Political Round-Up, 5/19/09
Daily Kos — ... Rasmussenreleased a poll today on the never-ending 2008 Minnesota Senate race. Rasmussen has taken some heat for a purported Republican bias around these parts, and it is true that their Obama approval numbers and generic Congressional tests seem to have a modest GOP lean. That said, they posted an interesting one today—54% of Minnesota voters want Coleman to concede, while 41% want Coleman to fight on. What is key here—the question is worded in such a way that implies that the voters want a concession that predates the State Supreme Court’s actions on ...

MN-SEN: The NRSC's Contribution To Obstruction Continues
Daily Kos — ... So, with no prominent Republicans willing to put pressure on Coleman to throw in the towel, and as the challenge drags on now into its seventh month, it is no wonder that 54% of the voters in Minnesota want Coleman to concede RIGHT NOW (even in advance of the state Supreme Court decision). ...