Suffolk University Poll of Florida: Republican Marco Rubio Leads by 8 Points

Suffolk University ^ | 10/18/2010 | David Paleologos

[Crichton]

With a little over two weeks left in the 2010 election cycle, Republican Marco Rubio (39 percent) leads Independent candidate Charlie Crist (31 percent) by 8 points and Democrat Kendrick Meek (22 percent) by 17 points in the race for U.S. Senate, according to the latest Suffolk University/WSVN poll. Libertarian Alexander Snitker trails with only 2 percent and 6 percent of likely voters remain undecided.

In the race for governor, current Chief Financial Officer of the state of Florida and Democratic candidate Alex Sink (45 percent) leads Republican candidate Rick Scott (38 percent) by 7 points. Independent candidates split 4 percent of the vote – Peter Allen (2 percent), C.C. Reed (1 percent), Daniel Imperato (1 percent), while 13 percent of likely voters remain undecided.

[Crichton]

Poll sample: 42% Democrat 36% Republican

2006 turnout (exit poll): 36% Democrat 39% Republican

2004 turnout (exit poll): 37% Democrat 41% Republican

[Crichton]

Pam Bondi 38
Dan Gelber 30

All of these results would be several points more favorable to Republicans with a reasonable partisan breakdown.

[nhwingut]

Suffolk is just like UNH. Familiar with both. They are famous for oversampling Dems.

[WOSG]

Skewed about 10% for the Dems ... so Sink/Scott race is actually ... even!

[Crichton]

I’m not sure the poll tells us much - even with an adjusted sample, say Scott 43 to Sink 41, the problem remains of the 13% undecided.

[tbpiper]

BS meter pegging.

[libbylu]

This is silly. Can there be that many undecideds if they are polling likely voters? And Meeks is preventing Crist from leading Rubio?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Suffolk did this poll for the liberal media in South Florida. Take a pass on it.

[Crichton]

They didn’t release the likely voting screen, so it’s hard to know how much that was screwed up. I do think there’s a relatively high portion that does not want to vote for a lib dem but has been told Rick Scott is the devil, so they’re still figuring out what to do. I expect a fair number (2+%?) will skip that ballot line.

[television is just wrong]

as the liberal press often says, “Americans like divided government.” It is also just desserts for what they all have been pulling...

[libbylu]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_governor_elections/florida/election_2010_florida_governor
New Rasmussen today, Scott has 7 point lead on Sink. Rubio has 11 point lead on Crist.
I know which poll I believe, the pro!
So glad to see Scott’s lead I really really want him to win. My husband says he is a crook, I say yeah but he is ours (I don’t think believe the garbage).