Nelson leads Harris by 22 points

"In Florida's U.S. Senate race, Democratic incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson leads U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, his likely Republican challenger, 53 - 31 percent, similar to his lead in August 31, 2005, and November 15, 2005, Quinnipiac University polls. Republicans back Harris 62 - 22 percent, while Democrats back Nelson 82 - 7 percent and independent voters go with the Democrat 55 - 23 percent.

"U.S. Rep. Harris has gained no ground against Sen. Nelson, who has a lukewarm 49 - 20 percent approval rating for the third poll in a row," Brown said."

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/...

In the presidential race in Florida, Clinton and Guliani are the leaders.  Although McCain beats Clinton by a bigger margin than Guliani:

"Giuliani, who some have speculated might not run well among the socially conservative southern GOP, is the 2008 presidential choice of 47 percent of Florida Republicans, followed by Arizona Sen. John McCain with 29 percent. No other GOP contender tops 10 percent in this survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN uh-pe-ack) University poll.

Sen. Hillary Clinton is the leader among Democrats, with 41 percent, followed by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards at 14 percent each, and Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden at 8 percent.

In a general election matchup, Sen. McCain beats Sen. Clinton 53 - 38 percent, while Giuliani would beat the Democrat 50 - 41 percent."

•  Re: Rudy.

  I feel that we could really take him to the mat with a strong contenders like Warner, Russ, Clark, perhaps even Hillary.  I imagine if those two were our nominees, there's be lots of 3rd party action that could favor us as well.

  by AnthonySF on Fri Feb 24, 2006 at 08:48:14 AM PDT

•  Yeah but Rove said....

  ...harris was dropping out of the race.  Does she have a good chance at winning the primary?

  by DawnG on Fri Feb 24, 2006 at 09:13:46 AM PDT

  •  Since when is she

    dropping out of the race?  Liddy Dole failed to get another decent GOP-er here months ago.

    by AnthonySF on Fri Feb 24, 2006 at 09:20:34 AM PDT

•  This poll

  contradicts the recent Rassmussen poll that showed Harris closing the gap.

  Interesting that disapproval/approval number is 46-50.  SuveryUSA recently found it 55-42 negative.

  http://www.surveyusa.com/...

  by fladem on Fri Feb 24, 2006 at 10:35:28 AM PDT

•  What might have been

  I spent a lot of time in 2004 powerlessly arguing that Bill Nelson should be the VP pick for the Democratic ticket.

  Kerry and the Beltway consultantocracy thought otherwise.

  How hard is this stuff? Given the choice between Edwards and Nelson, neither one were going to have any shot at swinging the Southern bloc to blue outside of their own home states.

  Yet if you look just at that one metric, Nelson had been in Florida politics for far longer than Edwards had served in office in North Carolina. Nelson had been re-elected several times, whereas Edwards hadn't been re-elected even once. Nelson regularly polled much higher in FL than Edwards ever did in NC. And Florida has and had a much stronger tendency to swing Democratic. Democrats get elected in FL fairly regularly. In NC it's a fluke when it occurs.

  I am honestly coming to think that the RNC has infiltrated the ranks of professional Democratic consultants with people who are quietly paid off to make ludicrously bad decisions and throw races.

  by marquer on Fri Feb 24, 2006 at 11:04:06 AM PDT

•  Tags

  Kathleen Harris?

  by The Cunctator on Fri Feb 24, 2006 at 05:56:17 PM PDT