Yesterday, CNN released a poll of registered voters in Florida and found Marco Rubio leading by 2.
Today, there’s a new poll out of likely voters, with a very different result:
Republican 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 Voter Survey Service poll surveyed 1,016 voters Sept. 1-5 and Sept. 7, and had a margin of error of 3 percent.
Knowing that we’re seeing such huge gaps . . . why are major media institutions still releasing polls that don’t filter for likely voters?
Thanks for the Rasmussen interview the other day, and keeping an eye on the actual practice of polling. This "geek stuff" is important, and why we love Campaign Spot!
Also: WOW, Rubio ahead by double digits in the first poll right after Labor Day?! I figured Crist would melt away eventually, but this seems to fit the most optomistic scenario possible (for Republicans.) If Rubio can win by 10, Angle can definitely win too. Maybe 51 seats in the Senate really is possible?!
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