New poll shows Alex Sink with 7-point lead in (FL) governor's race

[Roland99]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-mason-dixon-governors-poll-20100923,0,5015408.story

TALLAHASSEE – Entering the stretch run of their hotly contested gubernatorial showdown, Democrat Alex Sink is enjoying a slight edge over Republican Rick Scott thanks to the lingering bad taste left with voters over his bloody, $70-million Republican primary.

A Mason-Dixon poll released Thursday that was commissioned by the Orlando Sentinel/Sun Sentinel and other media outlets found Sink, a former banking executive and current Florida chief financial officer, with a 47-percent to 40-percent lead over Scott, a former health-care CEO and investor from Naples. But Sink's 7-percent lead in the poll is hardly insurmountable – 11 percent of voters remain undecided.

The survey of 625 likely voters, which has a margin for error of plus-or-minus 4 percentage points, found that Sink can credit her advantage to those always-crucial independent voters, among whom she led 44-percent to 37-percent in the survey.

Scott emerged from a blistering GOP primary that saw him use $50 million of his own money to attack Republican Bill McCollum as a "political insider" and deflect accusations that he was complicit while his former hospital company, Columbia/HCA, defrauded the government out of billions of dollars in Medicare fees in the 1990s and was subsequently fined $1.7 billion in penalties.

The GOP is running smear ads against her and they are a joke. She needs to keep up with her "what I'm going to do for FL" type ads and keep on that Scott is running is against Obama. heh

[Scurrilous]

1. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Dr.Phool]

2. Good for Alex!

Now, she should turn Rod Smith loose on Scott. He's the prosecutor who fried Ted Bundy. I'm sure he could build a hell of a case against Scott in the media.


Just for the record, I'm almost universally opposed to the death penalty. But, I can make an exception in Bundy's case.

[flvegan]

3. I laughed the first time I saw Scott's new ad with his mom as the star.

"He's a good boy!"

:rofl:

Helluva campaign slogan, Scottie.