Florida Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on at least one thing —they’re not crazy about either candidate in the gubernatorial race: Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) or former Gov. Charlie Crist (D).
That’s according to a pair of new polls which show especially bad favorable numbers for either candidate.
A Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday found Scott leading Crist, 44 percent among likely voters to 42 percent. Similarly, a SurveyUSA poll also released Wednesday found Scott leading Crist 43 percent to 42 percent. Those findings are in line with recent polls showing a tight race.
But the favorable to unfavorable numbers for both candidates are more shocking. The Quinnipiac poll found that 41 percent of those surveyed had an favorable opinion of Crist while 49 percent said they had an unfavorable view of him. For Scott, the poll found that 42 percent had an favorable view of him while 48 percent said they had an unfavorable view of him.
The numbers were somewhat worse in the SurveyUSA poll. Among likely voters 45 percent said they had an unfavorable view of Crist while just 33 percent said the had a favorable view of him. Meanwhile 42 percent said they had an unfavorable view of Scott while 37 percent said they had a favorable view of him.
The findings prompted Harry Enten at FiveThirtyEight.com to write a post about how no other gubernatorial race in the country has such disdain for both the Democratic and Republican candidates.
The TPM Polltracker average gives Scott a 1.7 point lead over Crist.
If voters in Florida had any awareness beyond guns and religion, they would realize that they were grifted by Rick Scott. Unfortunately, Floridian voters have proven that they are intrinsically stupid and feeble-minded when it comes to electing their Governors.
Well the solution is to pick the one less likely to piss you off more if elected or re-elected. The other choice would be to put forth better candidates, but is not an option. Both have track records so the decision should not be that difficult….even for Florida.
who are these people who have a favorable opinion of rick the medicare thief scott…is it the old and infirm …people who have a history of sucking in fumes from their tail pipe, eating lead based paint chips as a child ,hitting themselves in the head with a brick…??? what I really don’t understand… oh wait their republicons that explains it