Great News for Florida - Governor's race to close to call

[Jeanette in FL]

Poll: Governor's race between Crist, Davis too close to call
By BRENT KALLESTAD
Associated Press Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's gubernatorial race between Republican Charlie Crist and Democrat Jim Davis has suddenly become too close to call, according to a poll released Monday as early voting began with Election Day just two weeks off.

Crist, the state's attorney general, had enjoyed double-digit leads in previous polls. But he was favored by 46 percent of likely voters to Davis' 44 percent with 8 percent undecided in a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday. That was within the margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.

Eleven percent of respondents indicated they could still change their minds in the race between Crist and Davis, a Tampa congressman, to succeed Gov. Jeb Bush.

The poll comes a day before Davis and Crist have their first of two debates.
Earlier this month, Crist was favored 53 percent to 43 percent in a similar sampling by the Connecticut-based polling institute.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/gen/ap/FL_Governor_Poll.html

This is great news for those of us down here in Florida. Davis has received the endorsements of many of the major newspapers down here already.

[Hav]

1. .

I hope it's a reliable poll and not an anomaly.
First, I thought that it couldn't suddenly be that close until I read that the Independents switched to the Dem and that many more know Davis by now. That could explain the shift.

[Nimrod2005]

2. This is for real some other poll had Davis down 5 points 3-4 days ago...Now this:

Davis has just raised enough money to get his face on TV...3 weeks ago, 57% of likely voters did not know who he was!

Now the wheels are tuning and it is working.

This is awesome news for Dems in Florida... I am very excited!!!


The debate is tonight on PBS...Another deabte is in one week moderated by Tweety himself!!!

[tsuki]

3. I got a flier for Crist yesterday.

Opposes stem cell research.
Pro "family values."
Anti gay marriage.
Anti gay adoption.

Picture of a young white woman (wholesome,) young white man (manly,) and a pudgy white baby (cherubic) atop the full color flier.

Tore it up.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. I hope he increases his lead! With Diebold machines being used,

we can't have "close" races. They can easily steal those and we know FLORIDA...all too well.:(