At this point, talk of a Somebody-Rubio ticket or an Obama-Clinton ticket is just idle speculation. For what it’s worth, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida insists he’s not interested in the vice-presidency, and President Obama insists that Vice President Biden is sticking around for the long haul.
But in Florida, they’re polling on this question nonetheless:
A new poll of registered voters in Florida shows if Sen. Marco Rubio is the VP candidate, the Republican ticket would get 46 percent of votes. With that scenario, President Barack Obama would receive 41 percent.
If President Obama were to drop current Vice President Joe Biden and add current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the ticket, 50 percent of voters would favor the them.
With both Rubio and Clinton on their respective party’s tickets, the race tightens — with 46 percent of vote going to the Democrats and 43 percent for the Republicans.
The poll by Suffolk also found Rubio has a 40 percent favorable, 31 percent unfavorable rating.
President Obama has a 45 percent favorable, 48 percent unfavorable rating. The poll is of registered voters, 41 percent Democrats, 36 percent Republicans, 23 percent no party/other.
If the repub. needs help getting FL, then it's not a good sign. Rubio being Hispanic doesn't help with the legions of Hispanics as much as you'd think as he is Cuban and most others are Mexican.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's increasingly likely that Romney will be nominated. Rubio or Paul Ryan would be superb choices for a running mate to reassure Conservatives.
anyone/Rubio 2012!
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The Republican party needs someone better than Rubio. The Latino community is not going to vote for him just because he has an Spanish name. Many of us have more gray matter and we want respect from all parties.
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