Public Policy Polling (3/5-8, registered voters, no trend lines):
Alex Sink (D): 31
Bill McCollum (R): 44
Undecided: 25Alex Sink (D): 27
Charlie Crist (R): 47
Undecided: 26
(MoE: ±3.4%)
Getting back into the gube race must look like a pretty tempting option for Crist at this point… were it not for the fact that McCollum is waxing Crist’s ass by a 49-35 spread in a hypothetical GOP primary.
This is PPP’s first look at Florida this cycle, and the numbers for the gube race have to be considered a big (if not unsurprising) disappointment for DGA strategists who were giving each other back-slaps when this race opened up last year. There’s nothing that Alex Sink can do at this point to fix the political environment, but there is a good deal of evidence out there suggesting that there are plenty of things that she can do to right the course of her campaign: a more coherent and substantive communications approach, a willingness to “work a room” and meet with grassroots activists, and perhaps signing up for a “Media Relations 101” boot camp. Let’s hope she gets her act together — and quickly.
I have to believe there is more than enough time to turn this around. As PPP suggest, neither are that well known which in itself says to me people aren’t really taking much notice right now.
… a candidate named Sink is receding in the polls and the SSP team couldn’t be bothered to come up with even the most perfunctory of puns? To think this is coming from the same folks that brought us “Panic! At Tedisco” and “Carnahan Smokes Blunt”…
If Crist switched back to Gov race does McCollum have a place to land? Does he take Lt Gov spot (with the idea that eithr Crist or McCollum runs Sen vs Nelson in 2012).
Does McCollum switch back to a re-election to AG or does he drop down & try to get his old Congressional seat back and run against Alan Grayson. Or does he take it to Crist and try and Rubio him in the GOP primary.
Would be interesting to see what would happen if Crist switched back to Gov.
Sink. Not only she’s following the strategy of Senator (Oops, I mean the one who turned a sure win into a 5 point loss in Massachusetts) Martha Coakley, but McCollum is going to ride Rubio’s teabagger powered coattails into Tallahassee in November. She’ll lose by double digits like her husband did in 2002. Let’s just hope Meek and Sink’s annihilation at the top of the ticket doesn’t drag Grayson and Kosmas with them.
I know there is zero chance but I really am hoping that Wexler decides to run for Governor. Wexler would be an amazing progressive Governor and would set himself up for a Presidential run after being Governor of the biggest swing state in the country.