Marco Rubio leads Charlie Crist 60% to 28% in latest PPP poll

marco-rubioIs it any wonder that Charlie Crist had to go on the Greta Van Susteren show last night to cry like a little baby? These latest polling statistics should tell you the reason why. Left wing PPP shows that Marco Rubio has a 60% to 28% advantage over RINO extreme Charlie Crist, a 32% margin! This should also give you more answers as to why Crist is rumored to make a run for the Senate as an independent after he gets crushed in the Florida GOP primary.

Support for Charlie Crist from conservative voters has pretty much evaporated, and that’s allowed Marco Rubio to build a 32 point lead in the Republican primary for Senate.

Rubio now leads Crist 60-28, including a staggering 71-17 lead with conservatives. Crist has a 49-36 advantage with party moderates, but they account for just 31% of likely primary voters compared to 65% who describe themselves as conservative.

Rubio is benefiting from a widely held sentiment among Florida GOP voters that Congressional Republicans are too liberal and that Crist would add to the problem. 41% of them think that the party leadership in Washington is too liberal, and with those folks Rubio holds an 83-10 lead. 50% think that Crist himself is too liberal and with those voters Rubio’s advantage expands even wider to 90-5.

It also looks like it’s too late for Crist to audible and make another run for Governor. GOP voters say they’d prefer likely nominee Bill McCollum over Crist by a 49-35 margin. In fact Republicans generally just want Crist to go away- 56% say they’d like him out of office a year from now to 19% who’d like to see him continue as Governor and only 14% who want him in the Senate.

Crist’s biggest problem is that 56% of Republican primary voters disapprove of the job he’s doing as Governor to just 29% who approve. Any time that disapproval figure goes over 50% it means you have to actively change voters’ minds about you to have any success, and that’s a tall order.

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March 9, 2010 · Filed Under 2010 Elections


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