32 seconds ago 2009-12-01T01:14:43-08:00
Now that the waiting is over, the state that was evenly split over whether it wanted Al Franken in the Senate is still unsure about Minnesota's junior senator.
Fully 30 percent of the 1,000 adults surveyed for the Minneapolis Star Tribune weren't sure enough to venture an opinion about how Franken's doing, according to the poll conducted Sept. 21-24.
Of the rest, Franken's two months of work as a senator won the approval of 41 percent of respondents and the disapproval of 29 percent.
The poll had an error margin of 4.1 percentage points.
Franken was elected in October but didn't take his seat until July 7 because the razor-close outcome led to recounts that finally established him the winner by 312 votes.
The Star Tribune poll also found that President Obama has lost some of his luster in Minnesota.
Though the state helped send him to the White House by giving him 54 percent of the vote over Republican John McCain, Obama's overall approval rating in the state polled at 51 percent, down 11 percentage points from April, the newspaper reported.
