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Poll Shows Scott Edging Crist In Tight Race
September 24, 2014
With pollsters saying Florida’s gubernatorial race is too close to call, a survey released Wednesday morning shows Republican incumbent Rick Scott with a slight lead over Democrat Charlie Crist.
The Quinnipiac University poll said 44 percent of likely voters support Scott, while 42 percent back Crist and 8 percent support Libertarian Adrian Wyllie. In a two-man contest, 46 percent of voters back Scott and 44 percent support Crist.
Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said the race could come down to independent voters and Wyllie supporters. He said Republican and Democratic voters have lined up behind their parties’ candidates. That includes Democrats supporting Crist, a former GOP governor.
“The two voter groups that will tell the tale of the election are independent voters and those who are backing Libertarian candidate Adrian Wyllie,” Brown said in comments released with the poll. “Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist are doing about the same with their respective party bases, and former Republican Crist is not having any trouble being accepted by members of his new party.”
Brown added: “Wyllie voters are the bigger unknown because there is little way of predicting if they will stay with the third-party challenger or decide to switch to Scott or Crist in order to be with a winner.”
Crist led the race in a series of earlier Quinnipiac polls, but the Connecticut-based university cautioned against comparing Wednesday’s results with the earlier surveys. That is because Wednesday’s poll was conducted of likely voters, while the earlier polls were conducted of registered voters, an important distinction.
Nevertheless, the Quinnipiac results mirror other recent polls that showed Scott closing a gap in the race or taking a narrow lead. That shift, in part, has come amid a deluge of negative television ads on both sides.
“When fewer than four in 10 voters think both the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor are honest, you know this has been one of the nastiest races in state history,” Brown said. “They have been throwing so much mud that they both are covered in it.”
Quinnipiac, which frequently conducts polls in Florida and other states, surveyed likely Florida voters from Sept. 17 to Sept. 22. The poll has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
by The News Service of Florida
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7 Responses to “Poll Shows Scott Edging Crist In Tight Race”
Rick Scott is the only choice for Florida.
Almost 650,000 jobs created in the past 3 years and 8 months.
Scott has cut taxes over 40 times.
Under Scott there is RECORED funding for Education.
Yes in previous years cuts had to be made in order for Florida to live within our means, but since we chose to live within our means and not raise taxes we are now thriving as a state.
Rick Scott is Pro Job creation, and Pro Florida. There is no argument, Rick Scott is he right choice for Florida.
Duke,
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln around 1856
Crist did run and won the governor’s race on the Republican ticket. He got tired of dealing with the Republican party in Florida like many of the rest of us. I will vote for Crist because he was better to teachers than Scott has been. I have been hearing from a lot of state workers that are not happy with Scott.
I feel that Scott has done a good job and has earned my vote!
Gov. Scott is not fooling me. He’s a fony.
Crist is pro obama and obamacare. He couldnt win as a republican so now hes a democrat. Got no use for a huckster.
Scott is a hustler, but as P.T. Barnum once said “You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”.