A new Mason-Dixon poll of Florida’s Republican gubernatorial primary shows Rick Scott out in front of state Attorney General Bill McCollum, who’s been struggling in the polls for months. The new survey shows Scott with a 37%-31% lead.
With the exception of two internal polls released by the McCollum camp showing the race neck-and-neck, every poll of this primary contest since June (including a third McCollum internal poll) has shown Scott in the lead. Mason-Dixon’s previous poll, from way back in May, put McCollum up 38%-24%, but the landscape has changed dramatically since then.
The TPM Poll Average shows Scott leading McCollum 40.0%-29.3%. The margin of error of the latest Mason-Dixon poll is ±4.0 percentage points.
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