Approval ratings of Florida’s once popular Governor Charlie Crist are plummeting.
A newly released Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 poll reveals that 42 percent of Florida voters believe that Charlie Crist is doing a good or excellent job as governor. By a long stretch, this is the worst rating that Crist has received in his near three years in office.
Another bad sign too is, 51 percent of Republicans in the poll felt that Crist’s performance is fair or poor.
This is not good news for the governor who is facing stiff competition from former State House Speaker Marco Rubio of Miami in the upcoming U.S. Senate primaries.
With Florida’s unemployment rate above the nation’s at 11 percent, and record foreclosures with no end in sight, many Floridians perceive that the state is heading in the wrong direction. Small wonder then that the governor’s ratings are plunging.
