Scott Powers
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has a two-point lead over Republican Gov. Rick Scott in Florida’s U.S. Senate race, according to a new poll released Friday by the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
The chamber’s poll, conducted Sept. 19 through Monday and released at the chamber’s 2018 Future of Florida Forum meeting in Orlando Friday, gives Nelson 48 percent and Scott 46 percent, which falls within the 4.4 percent margin of error the chamber cited.
That makes it the third poll released this week that has Nelson ahead, though by a much narrower margin than the Quinnipiac University Poll released Tuesday and also tighter than the Marist/NBC News poll, also released Tuesday.
The Chamber’s poll was of 622 Florida voters.
The poll also found modestly positive voter approval for both candidates’ job performances: 50 percent said they approved of Scott’s job performance, while 46 percent said they disapproved, giving the second term Governor a plus-4 favorability rating; 46 percent said they approved of Nelson’s performance, while 41 percent disapproved, giving him a plus-5. About one in seven respondents were unsure about Nelson, however, while only 4 percent were indecisive about Scott.
Also of note: The poll put the job performance of President Donald Trump underwater by a 51-46 percent margin. Trump has been vocal in his support of Scott during his Senate campaign, going so far as to stump for him and Ron DeSantis, the Republican vying to succeed Scott in the Governor’s mansion, during a late-July rally at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa.
The Nelson vs. Scott election is one of the most-watched races in the fall, as national Democrats look to defend 10 sitting Democratic Senators in states carried by Trump two years ago.
According to a recent analysis by Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight, Nelson is the “most vulnerable” of the two dozen Dems seeking another term in November.
“It might seem surprising that the fundamentals calculation regards Florida’s Bill Nelson as the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent since Florida is quite purple and there are Democrats up for re-election in some genuinely red states” … “Nelson has a very good challenger in Florida Gov. Rick Scott; one way our model accounts for candidate quality is by looking at the highest elected office the opponent has held, with races against current or former governors or senators falling into the top category.”
Still, that analysis pegged Nelson as leading Scott by a tenth of a percentage point.
8 comments
Rick N Mosley
September 28, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Rick I am a Republican always will be. But I can not vote for Rick Scott .He has broke most of what he said he was going to do on his second term.,He has stood so much money from the the people in Florida and help all his friends get more richer. We can’t let him stay in office. HE is for him self and all his friends. I don’t like Bill Nelson but at least he trying to help the people in Florida. And he has not stood millions from the the people in Florida like Rick Scott.
GBrown
September 28, 2018 at 10:31 pm
Sure your a Republican.
Nordonia Nate
September 29, 2018 at 9:40 am
They aren’t. They aren’t even creative with their attempt..
Donna Gutman
October 2, 2018 at 1:40 pm
Thank you for this
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September 29, 2018 at 7:41 am
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The United States Of America.
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Ron wilb
September 29, 2018 at 9:52 am
Rick Scott sucks ass. He is a liar, a thief and a prejudice asshole.
VOTE NELSON for Florida.
Sharon Winterod
September 29, 2018 at 11:06 am
Nelson has got to go. The Dems has insured that I will vote straight Republican this time. I may never vote for another one of the democrats. They are there for money and power. They don’t care about the American people or the truth.
The I-4 Corridor
September 29, 2018 at 10:29 pm
It’s not about the titles of Republican, Democrat anymore. It’s about the person, who knows and lives the difference between right and wrong, patriot and doj criminal, and upholds the USA constitution and the unalienable rights and laws it contains for freedom, liberty, and democracy. The lost, radical, and evil are on a mission to destroy thru lies, deceit, smear campaigns, and greed for power for a new world order to be centralized circumventing this sovereign nation. On the local level it is choosing between the lesser of 2 evils with Scott and Nelson, and that is Scott. Nelson’s voting record and care for the Demo club in Washington is more important than the people’s will and voting majority. Deal in facts, not subjective emotional rhetoric, and always check the source of info, because now some people on the Left dont know the definition of credible. Statements without legal evidence are not truths.
Join the forces working to unseat pseudo representatives on both partisan groups that defy the peoples will. Vote for DeSantis, and unfortunately Scott.
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