Last Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott kicked off the Legislature’s 60-day lawmaking session with his annual state of the state speech, a campaign-like preview filled with job-creation statistics.
But, despite this, more troubling for Scott and his Republicans are a raft of poll data that show, Democrat Charlie Crist with broad-based support across Florida, the Miami Herald, reports. Here are some highlights:
• 34 percentage points — the margin Crist beats Scott by in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, according to one business interest’s statewide survey. This margin is 12 points greater than Democrat Alex Sink’s in the 2010 governor’s race. If she had earned Crist’s poll numbers in just these two counties, Sink would have won.
• 10 percentage points — the margin Crist beats Scott by in another business interest’s statewide poll.
• 8 percentage points — the margin Crist beats Scott by in two other business interests’ statewide polls.
• 7 percentage points — the margin Crist beats Scott by in a fourth business interest’s statewide poll.
• 6 percentage points — the margin Crist beats Scott by in a poll of Republican-controlled state House districts across Florida.
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