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Rubio within 10 points of Crist? So says Daily Kos poll

Posted Nov 19, 2009 by William March

Updated Nov 19, 2009 at 04:48 PM

A poll done by Research 2000 for the liberal Daily Kos web site says Marco Rubio has pulled to within 10 points of Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican U.S. Senate primary.

A sample of Republican voters in the poll split 47 percent for Crist and 37 percent for Rubio, with 16 percent undecided. That poll, done by traditional random-digit telephone dialing Nov. 16-18, included 400 likely GOP voters, for an error margin of 5 points, the web site said.

That’s the best result for Rubio of any poll so far in the primary.

An October Quinnipiac University poll made headlines when it showed Rubio within 15 points of Crist; but immediately afterward, a St. Petersburg Times poll published Nov. 1 showed Crist with a 22-point margin.

The Kos poll also shows Crist handily beating the likely Democratic nominee in the Senate race, Kendrick Meek, by 50-33 percent, but Rubio losing to Meek, 38-30 percent.

It also gives Democrat Alex Sink the best result of any recently published poll in the governor’s race against Republican Bill McCollum, showing McCollum ahead by only two points, 35 percent-33 percent—less than the error margin.