Former hospital executive Rick Scott is on top in Florida’s Republican gubernatorial primary, leading state Attorney General Bill McCollum 42-32, according to an Ipsos poll released today.
The last Ipsos poll, from May, showed McCollum leading Scott 46-22, with Paula Dockery at 3%.
Polling for the race has been all over the place this week. This morning, a poll sponsored by a group that endorsed McCollum showed the establishment pick with a 44-40 lead over Scott. A Mason-Dixon poll released yesterday showed McCollum up 34-30. Prior to those two polls, Scott had led in every poll released over the course of the last month.
The TPM Poll Average shows Scott leading McCollum 37.9-34.9.
The race has been one of the country’s nastiest primaries, and Scott has been using his considerable personal wealth to bury McCollum in a heap of negative ads.
The Ipsos poll was conducted August 6-10 and has a margin of error of 4%
In the general election, the Ipsos poll shows Scott leading Democrat Alex Sink and Independent Bud Chiles 30-29-14. With McCollum as the GOP nominee, Sink leads 30-26-12.
