The new Quinnipiac poll in Florida suggests that there is in no true frontrunner at all for the Democratic nomination for Senate — Rep. Kendrick Meek and businessman Jeff Greene are both so unknown to voters that it could be anyone’s game in the race to go up against Republican Marco Rubio and independent Charlie Crist.
The numbers: Meek 29%, Greene 27%, former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre 3%, and a plurality of 37% undecided. The survey of likely Dem primary voters has a ±3.5% margin of error.
The candidates are all unknowns. Meek’s favorable rating among Dem primary voters is at 29%, with 8% unfavorable, and 59% who haven’t heard enough. Greene is at 23%-10%-64%. And Ferre, who was mayor of Miami all the way back in the 1970s and 1980s, is at 8%-6%-83%.
