A statewide Minnesota survey of 1,000 likely voters, conducted November 10, 2009 by Rasmussen Reports, found U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s job approval rating to be 51 percent, with 45 percent disapproving and 4 percent not sure.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) at the Sartell SummerFest Parade, Saturday, June 14, 2008. (Photo credit: St. Cloud Times)

Here’s the poll question:

How would you rate the job Michele Bachmann has been doing as Congresswoman … do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job she’s been doing?

And here’s the breakdown of the results:

28% Strongly approve
23% Somewhat approve
12% Somewhat disapprove
33% Strongly disapprove
4% Not sure

The poll margin of sampling error was +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

It appears the poll — which also surveyed public opinion on U.S. senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, and Gov. Tim Pawlenty — sampled voters statewide; in other words, the numbers for Rep. Bachmann do not reflect the opinion of 6th Congressional District voters exclusively, as suggested by this analysis of the poll’s internals:

Fifty-four percent (54%) of Republicans statewide Strongly Approve of Bachmann’s job performance.

If, indeed, Bachmann’s poll numbers reflect statewide public opinion, it’s likely her job approval numbers are considerably stronger in her own district, which is the most Republican of Minnesota’s eight congressional districts.

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Related reports

Rasmussen Figures on Pawlenty, Bachmann, Klobuchar and Franken (Tom Scheck, Polinaut blog, Minnesota Public Radio, Nov. 13, 2009)

Michele Bachmann Update (Bill Prendergast, Daily Kos Diary, Nov. 13, 2009)

Bachmann vs Franken in 2014: A Dream Matchup? (Eric Ostermeier, Smart Politics, Nov. 15, 2009)

Related reports on this site

Building a Non-Partisan Coalition (August 5, 2009)

Can a Democrat Beat Bachmann? (July 27, 2009)

Bachmann Rated ‘Most Vulnerable’ (July 24, 2009)

Bachmann Faces Two-Front Fight (July 16, 2009)

MN-06: Who is ‘The Third Man’? (May 24, 2009)

Tinklenberg Challenger Speaks (May 13, 2009)

How to Beat Bachmann (May 9, 2009)

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: One Year Ago — November 14, 2008

Counting the Dead in Iraq

One-year retrospective: One year ago today, I reported an Associated Press tally documenting at least 26 deadly bombings in Baghdad in the first half of November 2008, compared with 28 for all of October and 22 in September, with at least 102 people killed in the Iraqi capital in the first half of November 2008, compared with 95 in October and 96 in September.