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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Oct 19, 2009 12:45pm |
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| News Date | Monday, October 19, 2009 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The most persistent rumor this week: Gov. Charlie Crist 44 percent Marco Rubio 30 percent in the race for U.S. Senate. The poll allegedly is the Florida Chamber of Commerce’s, but president Mark Wilson isn’t calling us back.
Is it true? We have no idea. But Rubio people have told us about it. Crist people have told us about it. And the accounts of the five people from both camps to whom we spoke differ by only a percentage point or two.
Regardless, some of Crist’s top supporters are worried. They say that this isn't the only poll showing that Rubio is scratching and denting the Teflon of Charlie Crist, who has seen record job loss and home foreclosures plague his watch as governor. More and more, they say, likely Republican voters are leaning toward Rubio and away from Crist, who’s having trouble undoing his man-hug of Barack Obama.
Meantime, this morning, Florida’s unemployment rate hit 11 percentage points. A recent InsiderAdvantage poll showed Crist's job-approval ratings below 50 percent (but Crist's camp touted the higher poll numbers the Chamber released). And we hear that Crist’s camp is considering taking out ads on conservative radio – a sign of nervousness considering that the election is 10 months out. One market, Naples-Fort Myers, is the very location of the Obama affair. |
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