Florida Republicans Want Jeb Bush to Challenge Nelson

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the strong favorite among Republican voters to challenge Sen. Bill Nelson (D) in 2012, a new Public Policy Polling survey shows.

Tom Jensen, director of the Democratic-leaning polling firm, said the findings — 72 percent of GOP voters chose Bush as their preferred candidate — differ from other state surveys in which voters have “no clue” whom they want to challenge the Democratic incumbent.

“With Bush in the equation none of the other options given get any higher than 6% — that’s for perennial candidate Bill McCollum — and once you get past McCollum no one else even tops 3%,” Jensen wrote on the PPP blog.

Bush, President George W. Bush’s brother, won over both conservatives and moderate Republicans in the poll of 400 GOP primary voters taken Dec. 17-20.

If Bush was not a choice, Florida Republican voters liked the following candidates:

Rep. Connie Mack IV, 15 percent;
McCollum, 14 percent;
outgoing appointed Sen. George LeMieux, 11 percent;
state Lt. Gov.-elect Jennifer Carroll, 10 percent;
state Senate President Mike Haridopolos, 9 percent;
Rep. Vern Buchanan, 7 percent;
and state Rep. Adam Hasner, 3 percent.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/-201952-1.html

Poll: Obama Would Stomp Sarah Palin in Florida

By Steve Peoples
Roll Call Staff
Dec. 22, 2010, 10:10 a.m.

The left-leaning pollster noted that a Democrat hasn’t won Florida by such a wide margin since 1948, when Harry Truman won by 15 points.

The former Alaska Governor trails Obama by “a stunning 14-point margin” — 52 percent to 38 percent, in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup released this morning by Public Policy Polling.

Democrats said the increase is largely attributed to more Hispanic voters, who generally side with them, although the effects of redistricting won’t be known until the new districts are shaped.

(THE DRONES ARE COMING OUT IN NUMBERS)

(THIS IS SABOTAGE AT ITS EARLIEST FORM OF MOCKERY)