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Davis Catches Crist in FL!

Submitted by CactusPat on October 23, 2006 - 8:22pm.

Bigtime black eye for the Bush Cartel if Dems can knock off Jebthro's hand-picked successor. via Goddard's politicalwire...

In Florida, Davis Nearly Catches Crist

In Florida's gubernatorial race, a new Quinnipiac poll shows Rep. Jim Davis (D) has nearly caught Charlie Crist (R) and the race has tightened to a statistical dead heat.

Crist now holds a statistically insignificant 46% to 44% lead.

Said pollster Peter Brown: "The Florida Governor's election is now a real horse race. It took Jim Davis a while to introduce himself to Florida voters, but he seems to have broken through and made a positive impression on many Floridians to whom he was until recently an unknown."

Repubs are goin' DOWN all over the country!

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Poll says Davis has caught up with Crist in FL

Submitted by CactusPat on October 23, 2006 - 9:34pm.

Miami Herald and WaPo pick up the latest poll news on the FL Gov's race...

Poll says Davis has caught up with Crist

BY MARY ELLEN KLAS

A shift in the mind-set of independent voters has made Florida's governor's race a ''dead heat,'' according to a new poll by Quinnipiac University.

The poll, released today, shows Democrat Jim Davis narrowing the gap with Republican Charlie Crist to two points -- 46 percent to 44 -- well within the poll's 3.4 percent margin of error.

Two weeks ago, a similar poll by the university found that Crist, the state attorney general, held a 10-point advantage over Davis, a congressman from Tampa. But that lead has eroded because of a 21-point shift among independent voters, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. Independents flipped from favoring Crist by a 50-43 percent margin to favoring Davis by a 50-36 margin.

A second poll released today, done for the Florida Chamber of Commerce, shows Crist retaining a sizable lead: 49 percent to 38 percent. The chamber's leadership has aggressively backed Crist, while Quinnipiac's polls, by contrast, is independent and nonpartisan.

Plus, tomorrow (Tues. 10-24-06) catch the first televised debate, to be broadcast on FL PBS channnels at 8:00 PM...

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