A new poll shows Gov. Charlie Crist with a commanding lead in the Republican U.S. Senate primary against Marco Rubio, and Republican Bill McCollum leading Democrat Alex Sink in the governor's race.
The poll, done by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research for Ron Sachs Communications, showed Crist with 53 percent, Rubio with 18 percent and 29 percent undecided among a sample of Republican voters.
Among all voters in the governor's race, McCollum led Sink 40 percent to 34 percent, with 25 percent undecided.
The poll was done May 14-18, after Sink, state chief financial officer, announced her candidacy, but before McCollum, state attorney general, announced his.
It included telephone interviews with 625 Florida voters, for an error margin of 4 points. The error margin for the Crist-Rubio question, asked of 300 Republican voters, is 6 points.
Ron Sachs, head of the public relations consulting firm, is a former Lawton Chiles administration official whose firm works for clients of all political persuasions.
Sink spokeswoman Tara Klimek called the poll results "not surprising" 18 months before the 2010 election.
"You're talking about someone who's in his 14th campaign, his third statewide race. The fact that he doesn't have a bigger edge suggests people have doubts about him."
McCollum campaign manager Matt Williams said McCollum "has just begun to unite the Republican Party behind his candidacy. We are overwhelmed by the positive response we have received."
Another recent poll matching the two head-to-head showed McCollum with a one-point lead, less than the error margin - 36 percent to Sink's 35 percent, with 27 percent undecided.
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