How would you rate the performance of Paul Wellstone as Minnesota's U.S. Senator: excellent, pretty good, only fair or poor?

If the 2002 election for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat were held today, would you vote to re-elect Democrat Paul Wellstone, would you consider voting for a Republican challenger, or would you definitely vote to replace Wellstone with a Republican?

Although he had previously promised to serve only two terms, Senator Paul Wellstone recently announced he would, in fact, run for a third term next year. Do you approve or disapprove of Wellstone's decision to seek a third term in the Senate?

POLL METHODOLOGY
The Mason-Dixon poll was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. of Washington, D.C. from February 5 through February 6, 2001. A total of 625 registered Minnesota voters were interviewed statewide by telephone. All stated they regularly vote in state elections.

Those interviewed were selected by the random variation of the last four digits of telephone numbers. A cross-section of exchanges were utilized in order to ensure an accurate reflection of the state. Quotas were assigned to reflect voter turn-out by county.

The margin for error, according to standards customarily used by statisticians, is no more than plus or minus 4 percentage points. This means that there is a 95 percent probability that the "true" figure would fall within that range if the entire population were sampled. The margin for error is higher for any subgroup, such as a regional or gender grouping.