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Marco Rubio now tied with Charlie Crist in Florida Senate race

The latest Rasmussen Reports poll. (H/T Caffeinated Thoughts)

  • Charlie Crist 43%
  • Marco Rubio 43%

And even better:

Very
favorable
Somewhat
favorable
Somewhat unfavorable Very
unfavorable
Crist 19% 42% 27% 11%
Rubio 34% 30% 12% 3%

Latest Rasmussen poll shows Crist has 14-point lead over Marco Rubio

Story here at Rasmussen Reports.

Excerpt:

The contest for the 2010 Republican Senate nomination in Florida is a little closer this month, but Governor Charlie Crist still holds a 14-point lead over former state House Speaker Marco Rubio.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely GOP Primary voters in the state finds Crist outdistancing Rubio 49% to 35%. Four percent (4%) like some other candidate, and 12% are undecided.

In mid-August, Crist was beating Rubio by 22 points among GOP Primary voters – 53% to 31%. That was Rasmussen Reports’ first poll of next year’s Republican Primary race.

The fact that Crist has fallen below 50% in a primary against a lesser known opponent suggests potential vulnerability.

Both men are vying to be the Republican nominee in next year’s race to fill the seat vacated by retiring GOP Senator Mel Martinez. In August, Crist as governor named his chief of staff, George LeMiuex, to serve the remainder of Martinez’s term, but LeMieux is not running for a full term next year.

This is more good news, especially after that RINO Dede Scozzafava quit the NY-23 Congressional race. Doug Hoffman is now tied with the Democrat, but should get the majority of Scozzafava’s votes when she drops out of the race. The election is set for Tuesday. My concern at this point is that the Republican establishment waited too long to endorse the right candidate and now we may have trouble getting out the vote.