She may be trailing in many recent polls, but Democratic state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink still leads the Florida gubernatorial race in a newly released Mason-Dixon survey. The latest poll finds Sink leading Republican former hospital executive Rick Scott 44%-40%.
When Mason-Dixon looked at this race on September 22, the Democrat was leading by seven points, 47%-40%. An October 3 Sunshine State News poll had Scott on top of the contest by two points, 44%-42%. Just prior to that, Republican-leaning pollster Public Opinion Strategies had him up 46%-42% and a Rasmussen survey showed a 46%-41% advantage for the Republican nominee.
The TPM Poll Average finds Scott ahead 45.1%-42.3%. The margin of error for the latest survey is ±4.0 percentage points.
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