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 |
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| Crist | 19% | 42% | 27% | 11% |
| Rubio | 34% | 30% | 12% | 3% |
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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.
Conservative Marco Rubio announces for Florida Senate seat
I spotted this over on the Maritime Sentry, a conservative policy-oriented blog.
Excerpt:
This gives the voters of Florida a chance to elect a true Conservative. Marco Rubio already has a record of standing on principle and being an articulate spokesman for Conservative ideals. Here is his official announcement video.
The video:
Cuban-Americans are SO CONSERVATIVE! They know the dangers of progressive policies.
I also noticed that the fiscal conservatives at the Club for Growth are pretty excited as well!
Excerpt:
Rubio, a young Cuban-American, highlighted his conservative record in a recent interview with the Club for Growth – including efforts to overhaul Florida’s tax system, reduce property taxes, and decrease the size of government.
“His fiscally responsible, pro- growth approach in the State Capitol stands in stark contrast with other elements of the state government, led by Charlie Crist” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola.
Also from the Washington Independent’s David Weigel, good news for Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania: (H/T Club For Growth)
The campaign of Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Pat Toomey announced that is has raised “raised over half a million dollars from over four thousand contributors” since the candidate entered the race on April 15. A hard number would be more interesting, but the campaign is backing up what a campaign worker told me (anonymously, for some reason) on the day of the the Specter switch: that the Website was deluged with donations.
Looking good for 2010!
UPDATE: I found even MORE good news over on the Anchoress’ blog. She has a post filled with interesting links, including a link to a recent Pew Research poll. The poll shows that the public is becoming more supporting of the pro-life view and the pro-legal-gun-ownership view.
For the first time in a Pew Research survey, nearly as many people believe it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns (45%) than to control gun ownership (49%). As recently as a year ago, 58% said it was more important to control gun ownership while 37% said it was more important to protect the right to own guns.
…Currently, 46% say abortion should be legal in most cases (28%) or all cases (18%); 44% believe that abortion should be illegal in most (28%) or all cases (16%).
So, some things are going well!
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