Democratic pollster: biggest winner of today’s Dem Senate primary may be Republican Rubio
by George Bennett | August 24th, 2010Democratic pollster Tom Jensen expects a Kendrick Meek win over Jeff Greene in today’s Democratic Senate primary. If so, Jensen says, “the biggest winner coming out of the primary may be Marco Rubio.”
The latest poll by Jensen’s Public Policy Polling says likely Republican Senate nominee Rubio (assuming he beats William Escoffery III and William Billy Kogut in today’s GOP primary) gets 40 percent of the general election vote, with independent Gov. Charlie Crist at 32 percent and Meek at 17 percent. If Palm Beach billionaire Greene wins the primary, Rubio holds only a 1-point lead over Crist, with Greene at 13 percent.
Crist has led some earlier polls, but PPP finds that if Meek is the nominee, many Democratic voters who might vote for Crist will instead come home to their party.
The general election poll sampled 567 likely voters over the weekend and has a 4.1 percent margin of error.
PPP on Monday released polls showing Meek leading Greene by 24 points and, in the GOP governor’s primary, Rick Scott topping Bill McCollum by 7 points.
August 24th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Don’t worry Marco we haven’t forgotten about you.
We got your number and will be coming for you next.
August 24th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
There are NO winners if people do not know to vote for MAURICE FERRE and NOT Greene or Meek….he is the best….the only…check him out…mymauriceferre.com….if you voted for Obama, you will want to vote for FERRE.
August 24th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Th anti-party national narrative for this election is just not holding up. – http://disenchantedjourno.blogspot.com/2010/08/thought-of-day-never-count-your.html
August 24th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Good article George. As a Democrat I would rather see Meek win but will vote for Charlie to prevent further republicon damage of my beautiful state of Florida.
August 24th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Voting Charlie all the way….
August 24th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
same like max
August 25th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
I’m confused about which would be the better candidate to run against.
August 25th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
It’s too bad, because neither side will learn anything from the lefts cave-in this past year. Special interest money is the drug our beloved politicians are hooked on … junkies!
September 30th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
We have to find a way to stop the party of NO!!!