Obama up 10 in Minnesota

Source: Public Policy Polling

PPP's newest poll of the Presidential race in Minnesota actually finds Barack Obama expanding his lead to 10 points over Mitt Romney at 53-43. Our last poll there in mid-September had found Obama's advantage to be 7 points at 51-44. A majority of the interviews for this poll were conducted Saturday and Sunday

There's an overwhelming sense in Minnesota as elsewhere that Romney won last week's debate. 64% think he was the victor to only 19% who say Obama. But unlike in other places it hasn't led to a big improvement in Romney's image. Just 42% of voters have a favorable opinion of him to 53% with a negative one. That's actually slightly worse than a month ago when he was at 43/51.

Obama has a solid 53/45 approval rating. Voters trust him more than Romney both on the economy (50/44) and on foreign policy (54/41). Obama has a 49/41 lead with independents, has the advantage with both women (56/41) and men (50/45), and has at least a small lead within all four age groups.

In the Senate race Amy Klobuchar has expanded her already wide lead from 19 points to 26 over the last month. She's at 57% to 31% for opponent Kurt Bills.

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Read more: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/10/obama-up-10-in-minnesota.html

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This is a poll of likely voters.

Full poll results here:

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_MN_10912.pdf

It explains there that most of the polling was done Saturday and Sunday, as opposed to some other recent polls that were front-loaded to have most of the poll results from the first couple of days after the debate.