Minnesota: Lead for Democrats in new Star Tribune/Mason-Dixon poll
The results of a new poll, sponsored Star Tribune/Mason-Dixon in Minnesota, were released on March 24. 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. The results show that 43.0% of interviewees will vote for Clinton, while 38.0% said they would vote for the republican Trump. The poll was conducted between January 18 and January 20. The sample size was 800 registered voters. Figures have a +/-3.5 percentage points sampling error.
Translating these results into two-party vote shares yields figures of 53.1% for the democrat Clinton and 46.9% for the republican Trump. The vote share for the democrats is 1.7 percentage points under the average results of other polls in Minnesota.