Minnesota: Comfortable advantage for Democrats in recent Star Tribune/Mason-Dixon poll

The results of a new poll, conducted by Star Tribune/Mason-Dixon in Minnesota, were released on April 2. In the survey participants were asked, whether they would vote for democrat Hillary Clinton or republican Donald Trump, assuming that these two candidates would win the primaries. According to the results, 43.0% of interviewees plan to vote for the Democrats, while 38.0% plan to vote for the Republican Party. This poll was conducted from January 18 to January 20, among a random sample of 800 registered voters. Figures have a +/-3.5 percentage points margin of error.

Converting these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 53.1% for the democrat Hillary Clinton and 46.9% for the republican Donald Trump. The vote share for the democrats is 1.7 percentage points under the average results of other polls in Minnesota.

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