Two new polls show that Mitt Romney currently has a good shot at winning Florida in the general election if the nominee, while Newt Gingrich would almost certainly lose.
In the Suffolk University/WSVN-TV Miami poll of likely Florida general election voters, Romney would defeat Obama by 5 points, 47 percent to 42 percent. Gingrich would lose by 9 points, at 40 percent to Obama’s 49 percent.
Romney would tie with the President, with both at 45 percent, according to the new Quinnipiac University poll. Running against Gingrich, Obama would get 50 percent to Gingrich’s 39 percent.
(Hat tip: Political Wire.)
It's just a darn shame that Marco Rubio hasn't been a Senator for a full-term, or maybe a Governor, before this year. If Romney was doing this well against Obama, either nationally but particularly in FL, Rubio would be up by double-digits, easy.
If the GOP candidate could do the same, or perhaps even better than GWB with Latinos (Bush earned a GOP record 44% of Latinos), Obama would have difficulty winning 23 or 24-states. You might even see his margin in California cut to single digits, maybe as low as 8 or 9, which would be miraculous.
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