Dem polling firm: Scott leads McCollum in GOP guv race, Meek +24 in Democratic Senate primary
by George Bennett | August 23rd, 2010Surveys by the Democratic-oriented Public Policy Polling firm show Rick Scott with a 47-to-40 percent lead over Bill McCollum in Tuesday’s GOP primary for governor and U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek holding a 51-to-27 advantage over Jeff Greene in the Democratic Senate primary.
Click here to read PPP’s press release and survey results.
The polls were taken Saturday and Sunday. The sample of 324 likely Democratic primary voters has a 5.4 percent margin of error and the GOP sample of 304 likely voters has a 5.6 percent margin of error.
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August 23rd, 2010 at 7:22 am
And who knows they will probably try to rig the votes too!
TOUCHSCREENS VS. OPTICAL SCAN
Nearly 35 Million voters , or around 30%, in the November, 2004 Election, voted on Touch Screens, also referred to as DRE’s and 68 million used Optical Scanners. (Paper ballots, including absentee ballots scanned and tabulated by electronic machine.) The main difference in these two technologies being… Optically scanned ballots can be re-scanned or recounted if necessary. Digital (Touch Screen) votes just disappear, making a recount all but impossible. Digital votes are cast and counted in the electronic software of the system. The 1970’s saw the debut of the touch screen voting machine; however the first states to use widespread Touch Screen voting were Florida, Maryland and Georgia.
All Maryland Touch Screens have been on a “lockdown” since the November. 2004 election due to statewide failures, including 12% of the machines in Montgomery County, some of which seem to have lost votes in significant numbers.
DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) voting machines came onto the scene in the 1990’s, but at a $3000 price tag, they lacked affordability. Then along came HAVA. And $3.86 billion Federal matching dollars.
In Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, and New Mexico, complaints came in from voters who were selecting Kerry on the Touch Screens and saw their votes change to Bush on the Summary Screen.
Florida had some interesting Optical Scan results as well: Calhoun County has 82% of the voters registered Democrats yet 63% of the County voted for Bush; Lafayette County – where 83% of the voters are registered Democrats and 74% of the County voted for Bush; Liberty County, again – 88% Democrats. 64% voted Bush; and Washington County, voters are 67% Democrat, yet voted 71% for Bush. All four Counties’ votes were Optically Scanned by Diebold. There were 25 other Optically Scanned Counties that also swung towards the President despite Democratic majorities
In 11 Florida Optically Scanned counties, Bush won between 50% to 100% more votes than had been anticipated. Kathy Dopp conducted a county by county examination of voting patterns in Florida that was double checked by Zogby analysts who concluded that Bush received 16% more votes than he should have in the Optical Scan counties. No wonder it’s Ohio’s new favorite choice for voting equipment statewide.
In New Mexico, President Bush carried every precinct where votes were counted with electronic Optical Scanners. Just this past January (2005) Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell (and former Bush/Cheney Campaign Co-Chair) declared that the entire Buckeye state will be voting Optical Scan only. And Diebold only, keeping it all in the home state.
“Maryland voters will never know for sure whether their election choices last year were recorded correctly— and the same uncertainty could haunt them next year if lawmakers again fail to address a serious defect in the touch-screen machines used throughout the state.”
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:28 am
The Republican race for Governor in Florida remains close headed into
the final day, with Rick Scott holding a 47-40 lead that’s within the survey’s margin of error.
If Scott does indeed end up as the GOP nominee on Tuesday night it will be because Bill McCollum couldn’t keep up with conservative voters. Scott has a 50-39 lead with them even as he trails McCollum 44-39 with moderates. There is a major divide along age lines between the two candidates with McCollum ahead by 13 points with senior citizens
and Scott up by 16 points with everyone else. The older the electorate is on Tuesday the better McCollum’s chances of pulling it out will be.
Whoever emerges as the winner on Tuesday will have a lot of healing to do. Both candidates generate pretty lukewarm feelings with the party base. Scott’s favorability is 46% and McCollum’s is 38%.
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:57 am
Remember, voting just allows the voter to perpetuate this corrupt system, with the same scum that is currently in power to continuing shafting the American people. BOTH parties are equally corrupt. Your “choice”?: Stychnine or cyanide…
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:08 am
6% margin of error???!! that is an absolutely shameful poll
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:28 am
Howdy Doodys, are you that stoopid? (Yes, I know how to spell, I just wanted to put stupid in a form you can understand) If Rick Scott wins,it won’t be because “McCollum couldn’t keep up with conservative voters”. It will be because Scott bought the election, spending $70 mil of his own money to $21 mil that McCollum raised.
That buys a lot of press to overshadow the fact that Rick Scott refuses to answer to his critics and fails to show to events that might hardball him for answers, instead sending his mother or not having anyone show up.
Is that the kind of person you want as governor?
As for your scanners and touch screens, why are you quoting data that is over 6 years old, since Florida already has addressed that issue with changes to voting booth irregularities?
August 23rd, 2010 at 9:21 am
Or perhaps Rick Scott could win because Republican are smart enuff to see a media circus:
1. Miami Herald’s Fred Grimm laments that CEO Scott gave a deposition in a lawsuit from Medicare… nothing nefarious cited, no charges inferred, no charges made. Most CEO’s of 340 unit Hospital chains would think one deposition a week was grand…and the lawyers standard answer “I have insufficient personal knowledge of the facts involved in this case to render an opinion. Based upon competent management I am told everything was sufficiently professional, complete and legal…”.
2. Others liberal rags (please name even ONE Conservative major daily in FL??) leave out the fact SCOTT fought BillaryCare and won. Clinton’s MMS retaliation was thousands of pages of harrassing, payback rules and regs against HMO’s, Hospitals, etc – many Part C plans folded …as Democrat loyalist Docs were rewarded with huge rate increases. Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins all “settled” to avoid Medicare prosecutorial misconduct “fraud fines” .
Rick Scott’s BoD chose to settle, Scott took his equity and retired – having built the 340 Hospital Chain from 2 hospitals.
3. Left out of any discussion of Rick Scott as CEO is that Columbia/HCA was a low price leader of quality rated medical care…lower than Church related, non-profits, municipal, or other for-profit chains. HEDIS reports showed far better quality care than average across the US! Americans saves tens of $Billions on their HealtCare from the forced innovation they demanded of taken over Hospitals!!
4. Left out completely from all “news” reports is that then US Rep Bill McCollum spoke up for the Hospitals persecuted by Clinton’s goon squad. He introduced Legislation to stop the insanity and force a congressional review of the inance Medicare Regs that did not stop one dime of the $100 Billion Waste, Fraud and Abuse.
5. MMA 2003 reformed the Medicare claims handling – from 48 “fiscal intermediaries” and “insurance handlers” to 15 Medicare Administration Contractors. All 15 were bid out by Bush’s end of term in Jan. 2009, 11 were fully operational.
6. Kathleen Sebelius’ Nov. 2009 20 page Medicare Executive Summary still referred to the replaced “fiscal intermediaries” — totally bogus information. Democrats agains did the Doctor “fix” instead of allowing the current law to penalize whenever total revenue exceeds max. budget…
Without Rick Scott, Americans might well have been saddled with BILLARYCARE in the mid-90′s — far worse Single Payor GOVT plan than the ridiculous BARAMACARE passed in secret by Hateful Harry Reid and NannyState Nancy Pelosi in 2010!!
Newspapers used to ferret out the facts…now they are ferrets creating distortion for their insidious Marxist propaganda doom and gloom ideology!!
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:57 pm
No more career politicians! We are voting for Scott because he is a businessman with NO political ties or special interest favors owed. We can’t stomach McCollum. He’s a liar- flipped flopped about the AZ illegal alien law! 1st he said “No Way” to FL getting the AZ law- then he changed his tune! Liar! Never trust a career politician! They are all scum! He also voted 42 times to raise his salary!