Kristen Carlson releases internal polling showing tie in CD 15

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The race to fill the open seat for Florida’s 15th Congressional District remains tied, according to a new internal poll by Democratic nominee Kristen Carlson.

Released Wednesday, the poll was conducted last week by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. It gives both Carlson and Republican state Rep. Ross Spano 47 percent each among likely voters, with just six percent undecided in the district.

The poll is the third recent survey showing the race to replace Republican U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross to be exactly tied, following Survey USA and a New York Times/Upshot polls.

According to the memo prepared by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and issued by Carlson’s campaign, she is winning solidly among independent voters in all three polls, and also has a significant lead over Spano among women and people of color, following a fairly consistent pattern favoring Democrats in other polls throughout Florida.

CD 15 stretches from eastern Hillsborough County through Polk County and into southern Lake County.

Scott Powers

Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at [email protected].



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