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Mason-Dixon: Rubio widens lead to 15 points

Posted Oct 7, 2010 by William March

Updated Oct 7, 2010 at 11:43 AM

Marco Rubio has widened his lead in the three-way U.S. Senate race, while Gov. Charlie Crist holds steady in second place and Kendrick Meek in third, a new poll indicates.

The Mason-Dixon Polling & Research poll for the Tribune and other news agencies shows Republican Rubio with 42 percent, followed by Crist, a no-party candidate, at 27 percent and Democrat Meek at 21 percent.

That’s only slightly changed from the last Mason-Dixon poll in the race in September, but Rubio’s slightly wider lead means he’s inching toward a position of near-invincibility in the race, said pollster Brad Coker.

Even if all the voters in the 10 percent “undecided” category went to either Crist or Meek, Rubio would still lead, Coker noted. If Rubio maintains his 42 percent support, he could lose only if one of the other two candidates dipped below 15 percent, an unlikely outcome.