Jacob Ogles
Floridians remain more satisfied than not with Florida’s economy under Gov. Ron DeSantis, but voice displeasure with President Joe Biden’s policies. That’s according to the latest Florida Chamber of Commerce poll on voters in the state.
“This new poll shows likely Florida voters are much more confident in Florida than in the nation as we begin the 2024 General Election, which is not surprising considering Florida created 1 in every 11 new jobs nationally over the last year and 1 in 6 new jobs nationally in the month of July alone,” said Florida Chamber President and CEO Mark Wilson.
“This job growth is not accidental — we must continue electing pro-jobs candidates to make sure the right things keep happening in Florida as we grow from the 16th to the 10th largest global economy by 2030.”
But the Cherry Communications poll results show Floridians as a whole are somewhat less effusive. A plurality, 47%, believe the state is on the right track. That’s more than the 45% who see Florida on the wrong track. That 2-percentage-point margin puts Florida above water. But the results fall within the survey’s 2-percentage-point margin of error.
However, that’s a far cry from the national outlook. Pollsters found 60% of Florida voters see the U.S. on the wrong track, double the 30% who see it on the right track.
As for specific concerns, 16% of Floridians list property insurance rates as the top issue to them. About 12% list immigration as a top concern, and another 12% list job creation and the economy.
Only 9% of voters put abortion as the top issue they will take to the voting booth this Fall.
Pollsters surveyed 600 voters between Aug. 15 and 26, a time period that spanned Florida’s statewide Primary when more voters were politically engaged. The polling breakdown included 254 Republicans, 217 Democrats and 129 other voters.
13 comments
Ocean Joe
August 30, 2024 at 5:23 am
Chamber is to Florida as Rasmussen is to the US.
Day 38
August 30, 2024 at 7:16 am
At least Floridian’s get it.
Yrral
August 30, 2024 at 8:21 pm
Florida make their money off of other Americans,their is not much to do everyday in Margaritasville
THE SAGE ELVIS [FKA EARL]
August 30, 2024 at 8:14 am
Good Morn ‘Ting Sage Florida Patriots,
“Imagine Yourself, If You Can, In A State Ran By Dook 4 Brains Leftists”:
You must see the Nation as being on “The Highway To HEII”.
Look out yonder at the horison:
Thats the “BIG RED WAVE” coming to “Save Us All”.
Thank you, Sage Florida Patriots,
ELVIS [FKA EARL]
rick whitaker
August 30, 2024 at 9:08 pm
HOMER TESTICLE HAS SPOKEN
THE SAGE ELVIS [FKA EARL]
August 30, 2024 at 9:34 pm
Thanks for backing up my Sage Wisdom Rick.
You are the best at driving home my Sage Wisdom into the twisted brains of all “The Dook 4 Brains Leftys” nation wide.
After Trump is inagurated you and me, ELVIS, have a standing reservation to both have Milania put the Presidential Medal of Honor around our necks just like our mutual Friend & Hero Rush Limbaugh had placed around his neck.
After we leave the Sage Event you and I will be wisked down to Florida and partake of some of the finest Hoochie Mamas in Florida’s Premire Strip Clubs.
I’ll tell your wife its just a business trip. And am packing extra condoms and Viagria so we can do the “Be Strong and Last Long Thing” with our “Sage Ginormous Johnsons”.
Thanks for being “The Wind Beneith My Sage Wings” Buddy,
ELVIS THE MOST SAGE!!!!
rick whitaker
August 31, 2024 at 11:53 am
EARL SHITTS, YOUR SCHTICK IS STALE.
Alex Azar
August 30, 2024 at 10:20 am
This poll contains a fatal flawe for Republicans. The number of unafiliated voters (independents) is nearly as large as Democrats. Combined they outnumber Republicans subtantially. So basically Republicans would need to heavily overperform among independents to sit pretty on their voter registration advantage over Democrats. And bad news for Trump: Republicans Scott and DeSantis are underwater with FL independents, FL women and SEVERELY underwater with FL African Americans whose turnout this fall will be the highest since Obama defeated McCain and Romney in 2008 and 2012. Remember the long, long lines for EARLY voting in 2012? Rick Scott saw how heavy the EARLY voting turnout was in Democrat districts and infamously reduced the early voting period. I saw one of these lines in Orlando and it was the longest line I’ve ever seen for someone to vote. It went out door, down the street and around the corner. At first glance it appeared nearly half of those Floridians waiting were African Americans which was noteworthy because it was NOT a majority or 50% African American population in that district. Yet they came out in force. The fact that the polling has reversed so suddenly in Georgia since Harris became the top of the ticket, and that African Americans are a substantial portion of that electorate there, tells me that if there were more polling in Florida, we’d be seeing a similar SURGE in the likely turnout of FL African Americans from 2022 (lowest ever) vs. 2024 (possibly highest in 12 years). Nearly one million Democrats did not turn out in 2022 when Democrats flattened the “red wave” everywhere else in the nation with the outlier being Florida despite high gas prices and high inflation at the time. A million Democrats staying home was a total fluke never seen in a major population state, a one-off where covid resrictions were still top of mind. Unfortunately for Republicans Covid is over now as far as elections. The statewide insurance crisis, surging property tax assements, and highest in the nation car insurance (twice the national averge, three times in the FL cities) as well as highest in the nation grocery price inflation (Publix raking profits hand over fist up nearly 100% on greed flation) are top of mind now for FL independents, women and African Americans who are not invested in making excuses for Republicans massively underperforming the rest of the nation on kitchen table issues.
Oh and you think maybe women will be turning out big when “Yes on 4” is on the ballot to restore reproductive rights? Those in support of ending the extremely unpopular Republican abortion ban (which even Trump just blasted because he’s seeing how unpopular the polling is) are organizing in preparation for a 60% YES turnout a.k.a. they are coming in with all hands on deck. Between high FL African American turnout and high pro-choice women turnout in the SAME election…I think we need a lot more polling and polling that correctly comprosed of more unafilianted and Democrats than Republicans
Michael
August 30, 2024 at 11:39 am
Actually, the poll has a fatal flaw on its face. The sample shows non-party identified at 129 out of 600, or 21.5%, while state election records show NPA at 28.8. When undersampling is set outside the margin of error, confidence level starts tumbling rapidly. While quality polling firms insist on sampling proportions to achieve 95% confidence, I suspect this one comes out somewhere in the 70s% confidence which is why it is notably undisclosed in the report.
THE SAGE ELVIS [FKA EARL]
August 30, 2024 at 7:05 pm
TMI Alex,
This is the place for hit & run short commentary.
Son, you are not suposed to write an essay.
Thank you Alex and I suggest you study my, ELVIS’ style and Sage Wisdom for a couple of weeks prior to commenting here again.
Thanks again, my new FAN-BOY Alex,
ELVIS
PointedProse
August 30, 2024 at 1:14 pm
I’m beginning to believe the swamp water has seeped into the brains of Republicans in this state. There is not a single area where we are better off than our peers nationally and the fact that we are allowing the Chambers to take care of we the people’s business is flat out wrong and not in our best interests, Florida..
Our inflation is the highest of all 50 states, our insurance rates are even higher than the inflation, we’ve dumbed down our children with a lack of reading material and accurate history, we have 1 out of every 5 school-aged children homeless and hungry as we turn away billions in federal funding, we’ve crippled our young women with a lack of reproductive health care, poured millions of gallons of sewage into the gulf and into thousands of homes with just one quick swipe from Debby, belittled and beaten down our LGBTQIA communities, can’t “say” gay or climate change, we can’t teach gender, ethnic studies or DEI to our college-aged students, we gave every yahoo in the state the right to open carry. Meanwhile we pay a measly $275 max per week for unemployment regardless of last income, and are now trying to pave over our own state parks (that serve an important purpose in our watersheds) to build hotels, golf courses and pickleball courts.
It’s no wonder Florida boasts the worst mental health in all the nation.
I don’t know what happened to our state or why our voters will not get out and vote, but folks, we either do so this election or we lose our state for good.
It’s time to end the single party rule in Florida and rebalance this state before there’s literally nothing left worth saving. It’s been an alarming 20 year steady decline and Rick Scott has been in power the majority of those years. We can thank him for single-handedly making us one long peninsula filled with raw sewage and greed, while keeping big sugar, resource miners, bigots and developers happy at all costs. We can also thank him (and Moody) for our abysmal Medicare and Medicaid programs.
We can thank Ron DeSantis for doubling down on all of the worst of Scott’s tendencies in the race to the bottom, with his special adolfian touch as we endure his bullying and watch as the litter piles up alongside our roadways. He undereducates our youth to the point that they will be far less competitive than their peers from other states, so perhaps he figures roadside trash pickup will be towards the top among their career choices – without “shade, water and cool down breaks” might I add.
Go Debbie Murcarsel-Powell! Win the Senate.
Floridians, we have to break the hold of single party rule in our state by voting straight blue in every seat possible, and know that our next citizen initiated amendment effort should be to pass recall rights into our constitution so in the future, we can stop the adolfian types like Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott should they attempt to further destroy our state.
DeSantis should have been recalled the moment he went all adolfian on us with the migrant flights, with the insurance negotiations, as well as when he gleefully joined the “Minivan Taliban” (aka Moms for Liberty) to risk our children’s health and decimate our educational system while playing out some major kink of their own. (Zeigler’s, I’m looking at you. I mean do you really blame your schooling on your propensities, or could the magazine ‘Hustler’ be more to blame? Regardless, either own your propensities or get treatment for them, but don’t take it out on the kids.)
I’m done, rant over, but I meant every word. Get out and vote unless you really do want this to be the last time you have this opportunity to be we the people and actually enjoy representation in this state, rather than a state full of authoritarians giving all our hard earned capital to big corporations while they keep their knees on our necks.
Ocean Joe
August 30, 2024 at 6:05 pm
Not a rant, an excellent rundown. And just wait for the next burden to hit: utility bills. It’s in the pipeline, already approved by the Desantis’ boys on the PSC.
Phil Morton
August 30, 2024 at 2:51 pm
Average homeowners insurance in Florida is $5,531 per year. It’s $1,456 in California, with all the fires, earthquakes etc. I’m thinking this poll is crap.
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