Florida Gov Race Deadlocked
The Huffington Post reports:
Yesterday may have been a federal holiday, but it was a busy day for new polls from four highly competitive contests for Governor in Florida, Rhode Island, Maine and Oregon.
In Florida, three new surveys conducted in the last week reaffirm a close race between Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink and suggest that Sink may be rebounding slightly from narrow deficits in mid-September. This morning, Quinnipiac University released a new survey showing a dead-heat, with Scott edging Sink by a single percentage point (45% to 44), a margin well within the survey's 3-point margin of error. That result falls in between a just released Rasmussen automated survey conducted last Thursday showing Scott with a three-point advantage (50% to 47%) and a Mason-Dixon live-interviewer poll conducted earlier last week showing Sink up by four points (44% to 40%).
Our standard trend estimate now gives Scott a 2.7-point advantage (45.9% to 43.2%) while our more sensitive estimate, which gives greater weight to the more recent polls, shows a virtual tie (45.1% Sink, 44.9% Scott). Either margin puts Florida's governor's race in the toss-up column.
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