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Minnesota: State Legislature

Job Approval Rating (General)
Job Approval Rating (Budget)
Job Approval Rating (Transportation)
Relationship with Governor

Job Approval Rating (General)

State Legislature Job Approval Rating (General)

Poll	Date	Approve	Disapprove	No opinion	Sample	MoE
SurveyUSA⁴	March 12, 2008	29%	58%	13%	700	± 3.7
SurveyUSA⁴	February 10-11, 2008	29%	50%	20%	700	± 3.8
Pioneer Press / MPR¹	September 18-20, 2006	35%	44%	21%	625 LV	± 4.0
Minnesota Poll¹	April 30 – May 4, 2005	40%	43%	17%	832	± 3.4
Minnesota Poll¹	January 23-26, 2005	39%	42%	19%	832	± 3.4
Minnesota Poll¹	April 25-29, 2003	45%	39%	16%	1033	± 3.0
Minnesota Poll¹	March 7-10, 2002	55%	33%	12%	823	± 3.4
Minnesota Poll³	October 4-14, 2001	37%	39%	24%	1014	± 3.1
Minnesota Poll²	June 12-18, 2000	46%	32%	22%	1050	± 3.0
Minnesota Poll¹	March 23-27, 2000	54%	29%	17%	1021	± 3.1
Minnesota Poll²	January 3-9, 2000	62%	18%	20%	1031	± 3.1

1 "Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Minnesota Legislature is doing its job?"

2 "Do you approve or disapprove of the way that the Minnesota Legislature handled the state's business in its [1999/2000] session?"

3 "Do you approve or disapprove of the way that the Minnesota Legislature handled the 2001 session?"

4 "Do you approve or disapprove of the job being done by the Minnesota state legislature?"

State Legislature Job Approval Rating (General)

Poll	Date	Excellent	Pretty Good	Fair	Poor	No opinion	Sample	MoE
Pioneer Press / MPR¹	May 24-26, 2004	1%	11%	29%	53%	6%	625 RV	± 4.0
Pioneer Press / MPR²	July 2-5, 2001	1%	28%	36%	31%	4%	627 RV	± 4.0
Pioneer Press / MPR²	July 6-8, 2000	2%	39%	43%	14%	2%	620 RV	± 4.0
Pioneer Press / MPR²	February 25-28, 2000	2%	51%	38%	4%	4%	641 RV	± 4.0

1 "How would you rate the performance of the Minnesota Legislature during the 2004 session?"

2 "How would you rate the performance of the Minnesota Legislature: excellent, pretty good, fair, or poor?"

State Legislature Job Approval Rating (Special Session)

Poll	Date	Very satisfied	Somewhat satisfied	Not satisfied	No opinion	Sample	MoE
Pioneer Press / MPR¹	July 2-5, 2001	6%	53%	31%	10%	627 RV	± 4.0

1 "As you may know, the Minnesota Legislature recently completed a special session aimed primarily at solving disagreements over tax policy that lawmakers could not resolve during their regular session. Overall, how satisfied are you with the outcome of the special session: very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, not very satisfied or not at all satisfied?"

Job Approval Rating (Budget)

State Legislature Job Approval Rating (Budget)

Poll	Date	Approve	Disapprove	No opinion	Sample	MoE
Minnesota Poll¹	December 17-22, 2002	30%	51%	19%	1003	± 3.1
Minnesota Poll¹	March 7-10, 2002	40%	46%	14%	823	± 3.4

1 "Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Minnesota state Legislature has handled the projected state budget deficit so far?"

Job Approval Rating (Transportation)

State Legislature Job Approval Rating (Transportation)

Poll	Date	Excellent	Good	Fair	Poor	No opinion	Sample	MoE
Rasmussen¹	October 31, 2007	7%	29%	36%	25%	3%	500 LV	± 4.5

1 "How do you rate the way that the State Legislature responded to the Interstate 35W bridge disaster and to the state transportation problems?"

Relationship with Governor

Better Performance During 2000 Legislative Session

Poll	Date	Governor	Legislature	Both good	Both bad	No opinion	Sample	MoE
Pioneer Press / MPR¹	July 6-8, 2000	41%	34%	8%	7%	10%	620 RV	± 4.0

1 "As you may know, the recent Minnesota legislative session ended with disagreements between legislators and Governor Ventura. Who do you think deserves better marks for their performance during this year's session: Governor Ventura or the Legislature?"