Sen. Amy Klobuchar has a huge lead on a number of potential Republican opponents for 2012, a new poll released Thursday found.
The poll, from Public Policy Polling, puts Klobuchar at least 13 points ahead against five Republicans in a hypothetical Senate match-up. The closest Republican, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, is already off and running for a higher office.
Klobuchar leads Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is also looking to the White House and not the Senate, by 20 points, 57-37. And she has leads of 27-28 points against three lesser-known statewide candidates, including Dan Severson, the only declared Republican Senate candidate so far. He ran unsuccessfully for Minnesota Secretary of State in 2010. (Update: Long-shot candidate Bob Carney tells Hot Dish that he is also running for Senate. He received 8 percent in last year's GOP gubernatorial primary.)
Klobuchar's favorability is now at 61 percent in Minnesota, according to the poll, up from 59 percent in December 2010.
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