Quinnipiac finds Marco Rubio leading Charlie Crist by 23 percentage points. That’s relatively good news for Crist, right? A few others had the spread closer to 30.
Marco Rubio has opened up an elephant-sized 56 – 33 percent lead over Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida’s U.S. Senate Republican primary, but in a three-way general election with Rubio on the GOP line, Crist as an independent and Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, Crist has a razor-thin edge, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Gov. Crist leads Meek 48 – 34 percent in a general election matchup, while Rubio’s margin over the Democrat is just 42 – 38 percent, the independent Quinnipiac University survey finds.
If Crist were to file as an independent for the general election, he would get 32 percent of the vote, compared to Rubio’s 30 percent and Meek’s 24 percent.
I had been expecting Crist to withdraw, but as time goes by, I wonder if he’ll pull the full Specter or full Lieberman. I know Crist has said he won’t do this, but Specter was insisting he would remain a Republican weeks before flipping parties.