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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,085 posts)
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 03:43 PM Sep 2020

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.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/presidential-race-tightens-in-florida-poll/ar-BB19ey9U?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

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Presidential race tightens in Florida: poll (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
Those "not sure" idiots are lying through their teeth. AleksS Sep 2020 #1
Agreed Rebl2 Sep 2020 #17
3 things. 5% undecideds, the cake is baked..don't know for who. We don't need Fl to win! Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #2
There are places Dems are not allowed to win kpete Sep 2020 #3
Obama won by 1-2 points but it was because of his machine. OrlandoDem2 Sep 2020 #5
Those 5% "undecided" are probably people who just want to vote for the winner bluewater Sep 2020 #4
"Eeny-meeny-miney-moe" FakeNoose Sep 2020 #13
Flight attendant: "Would you like the chicken or a pile of hot steaming shit?" LastLiberal in PalmSprings Sep 2020 #16
How true. Capt. America Sep 2020 #18
Florida is to Dems what Lucy's football is to Charlie Brown Bradshaw3 Sep 2020 #6
it's all drama llashram Sep 2020 #7
Fuck Florida RhodeIslandOne Sep 2020 #8
2018: Scott beat Nelson by 10,000 votes andym Sep 2020 #9
Plus BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #12
The good news is that all of Trump's gains have come from growing his support - not Biden losing. Drunken Irishman Sep 2020 #10
The average for most of September polls has been around 2%, so not really tightening Fiendish Thingy Sep 2020 #11
MSM nonsense. Scruffy1 Sep 2020 #14
The polls are tightening - flim at 11 machI Sep 2020 #15

Thekaspervote

(32,606 posts)
2. 3 things. 5% undecideds, the cake is baked..don't know for who. We don't need Fl to win!
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 03:47 PM
Sep 2020

And let’s see what Bloomberg’s 100 million dollar add buy there does in the next 2 weeks.

OrlandoDem2

(2,064 posts)
5. Obama won by 1-2 points but it was because of his machine.
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 03:58 PM
Sep 2020

Do not trust the FL Democratic Party to put together a winning coalition. They simply don’t 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)
4. Those 5% "undecided" are probably people who just want to vote for the winner
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 03:58 PM
Sep 2020

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)
13. "Eeny-meeny-miney-moe"
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 04:33 PM
Sep 2020

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.



16. Flight attendant: "Would you like the chicken or a pile of hot steaming shit?"
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 07:35 PM
Sep 2020

Undecided voter: "I don't know -- How is the chicken cooked?"

Bradshaw3

(7,455 posts)
6. Florida is to Dems what Lucy's football is to Charlie Brown
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 04:01 PM
Sep 2020

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)
7. it's all drama
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 04:04 PM
Sep 2020

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)
8. Fuck Florida
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 04:04 PM
Sep 2020

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)
9. 2018: Scott beat Nelson by 10,000 votes
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 04:06 PM
Sep 2020

Florida really is closely divided and events including the debates could make a big difference.

BumRushDaShow

(127,301 posts)
12. Plus
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 04:19 PM
Sep 2020

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)
10. The good news is that all of Trump's gains have come from growing his support - not Biden losing.
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 04:17 PM
Sep 2020

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)
11. The average for most of September polls has been around 2%, so not really tightening
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 04:17 PM
Sep 2020

Just a tightening from the pollster’s survey back in July.

Scruffy1

(3,239 posts)
14. MSM nonsense.
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 05:27 PM
Sep 2020

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.

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