Presidential race tightens in Florida: poll
Source: The Hill
The presidential race between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump in the battleground state of Florida has tightened, according to a new poll.
Biden leads Trump 48 percent to 46 percent among likely voters, according to a CBS News poll released Sunday. Biden's lead is within the poll's 3.7 percentage point margin of error.
The poll also found that an additional 5 percent of likely voters said they are "not sure" who they would vote for and 1 percent said they would vote for someone else.
Biden's slim lead has decreased to 2 points from 6 points since a similar poll in July, according to CBS News.
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AleksS
(1,665 posts)Not sure.
Liars.
Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)And lets see what Bloombergs 100 million dollar add buy there does in the next 2 weeks.
kpete
(71,900 posts)Florida is one
OrlandoDem2
(2,064 posts)Do not trust the FL Democratic Party to put together a winning coalition. They simply dont know how to drive up their winning margins in SoFla and cut their marginal losses in red areas. They are inept.
bluewater
(5,376 posts)and are not "shy" Trump supporters.
There's always about that % of voters who decide at the last minute to vote for who they think the winner will be, they feel validated if the person they voted for wins.
Human nature, gotta love it.
FakeNoose
(32,349 posts)We saw way too many of them in 2016. Some are closet-racists, others are closet-liberals. Doesn't matter because they'll balance each other out.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,538 posts)Undecided voter: "I don't know -- How is the chicken cooked?"
Capt. America
(2,477 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,455 posts)If Bloomberg wants to spend money there fine and maybe one visit from Biden but the campaign should put their efforts elsewhere.
llashram
(6,265 posts)the media wants this horserace. They find polls like this. I hope their polls scare enough people to get those undecided in our corner. That's all I believe about polls. I ask a number of people who the are favouring 99% say Biden/Harris. Our vote must be overwhelming
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Biden will be leading all night and then Dade County and Broward will report "missing machines".
Do not count it on your EV board.
andym
(5,441 posts)Florida really is closely divided and events including the debates could make a big difference.
BumRushDaShow
(127,301 posts)DeSantis beat Gillum by only about 33,000 votes.
I think that is why they are trying to get it to flip (even if by the same margins the other way). Probably a better bet than Texas at this point.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Biden was 48 in their last poll too.
But that means Biden hasn't done a good enough job growing his support and that is what absolutely killed Hillary late in 2016. Because there was a significant amount of undecideds, even though she led in a lot of these states, Trump grabbed pretty much all the undecided voters and with her being below 50%, it cost her some states.
When people talk about the silent Trump supporter - that's the silent Trump supporter. They don't say they're voting Biden, they just say they're undecided, even though they are decided. Those shy Trump supporters are starting to move to Trump. So, 5% not sure - if t hat trend continues, likely ends up with Trump winning Florida 50-48 or something.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,367 posts)Just a tightening from the pollsters survey back in July.
Scruffy1
(3,239 posts)The polls have been pretty consistent in Florida showing Biden at between 2 and 5% ahead. Claiming one poll in this range means anything is plain journalistic malpractice. I've noticed that Ohio has hardly been polled and think it's because if the polls there showed Biden in the lead their "horse race" scenario would die. After all, no one runs a poll if they aren't paid for it. My advice is, as always, ignore the MSM and GOTV.
machI
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