The latest poll numbers from Rasmussen Reports show Republican Rick Scott increasing his lead over Democrat Alex Sink in the race to become Florida's next governor.Scott still has 50 percent of the support from likely Florida voters to Sink's 44 percent. Six percent say they plan to vote for a different candidate.My Fox Tampa Bay
| Election 2010: Florida Senate | |
|---|---|
| Marco Rubio (R) | 50% |
| Kendrick Meek (D) | 19% |
| Charlie Crist (I) | 25% |
| Some Other Candidate | 3% |
| Not Sure Rasmussen Reports | 3% |
Image via WikipediaRepublican Marco Rubio, garnering surprising strength among independent voters, holds a double-digit lead over his two chief rivals in Florida's U.S. Senate race, a new Sunshine State News Poll reports.
The survey of likely voters shows Rubio with 43 percent, independent Charlie Crist with 29 percent, Democrat Kendrick Meek with 23 percent and the remaining 5 percent undecided.
The most persistent rumor this week: Gov. Charlie Crist 44 percent Marco Rubio 30 percent in the race for U.S. Senate. The poll allegedly is the Florida Chamber of Commerce’s, but president Mark Wilson isn’t calling us back.
Is it true? We have no idea. But Rubio people have told us about it. Crist people have told us about it. And the accounts of the five people from both camps to whom we spoke differ by only a percentage point or two.
Source: The Miami Herald Blog
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Republican Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum leads the state's Chief Financial Officer, Democrat Alex Sink, 38 - 34 percent among registered voters in the 2010 Governor's race, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
This reverses a 38 - 34 percent Sink lead in a June 9 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. The key is among independent voters who shift from 32 - 27 percent for McCollum June 9 to 38 - 23 percent today.
Gov. Charlie Crist leads former state House Speaker Marco Rubio 55 - 26 percent for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, compared to 54 - 23 percent margin June 10.
The three potential candidates for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, U.S. Reps. Kendrick Meek, Ron Klein and Corrine Brown, are bunched together and largely unknown to most Floridians.
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| STATE | MEN | WOMEN | DEM | REP | IND | |
| MCCOLLUM | 36% | 41% | 31% | 9% | 66% | 34% |
| SINK | 35% | 32% | 38% | 59% | 7% | 40% |
| UNDECIDED | 29% | 27% | 31% | 32% | 27% | 26% |
| STATE | MEN | WOMEN | DEM | REP | IND | |
| DEFINITELY | 17% | 20% | 14% | 12% | 23% | 17% |
| CONSIDER | 50% | 44% | 56% | 45% | 53% | 54% |
| DEFINITELY NOT | 26% | 29% | 23% | 35% | 18% | 24% |
| MAYBE | 7% | 7% | 7% | 8% | 6% | 5% |
So congratulations to the Lovernor and our future first lady. Still, the timing sure was interesting.
—Orlando Sentinel
