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Time/CNN poll: Rubio leads narrowly, Sink up by 7 points

Posted Sep 8, 2010 by William March

Updated Sep 8, 2010 at 05:01 PM

A new Time/CNN poll shows Marco Rubio with a narrow lead—statistically a tie—in the Florida U.S. Senate race, and Alex Sink with a statistically significant lead over Rick Scott in the governor’s race.

The numbers:

—In the Senate race, Rubio 36 percent, Charlie Crist 34, Kendrick Meek 24 percent, and 6 percent neither or no opinion.
—In the governor’s race, Sink 49 percent, Scott 42 percent and 9 percent neither or no opinion.

The poll, which included registered voters as opposed to likely voters, carries a 3.5 percent error margin.

The poll found Meek with a significant lead among non-white voters in the Senate race, and with more than half the Democrats in the sample. Crist got 36 percent of Democrats.

In the governor’s race, Sink got nearly all her margin from a significant lead among women voters, while Scott nearly tied her among men voters.

The findings among sub-groups carry larger error margins.