Scott Pulls Ahead After Blackberrygate
Polls show Florida GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott ahead after his Dem opponent Alex Sink was caught breaking debate rules during their televised clash.
Rick Scott just might win Florida’s gubernatorial race. A new poll conducted during and after Scott went after Democratic opponent Alex Sink during their final debate on CNN shows Scott with a two point edge. Perhaps more importantly, the poll also shows Ranger Rick leading 48-44 among those Floridians most likely to vote.
Scott’s 47-45 lead remains within the poll’s 2.49% margin of error, but reveals how Scott has seized the momentum going into election day. On October 12-13th, Sunshine State News pegged the race at 48-45 in Sink’s favor. By October 20th, Scott had pulled even with Sink in Sunshine State’s polls. On Monday, the two dueled in their final debate; after their nationally televised slugfest, Scott finally moved ahead of Sink in Sunshine’s tracking poll.
The Sink campaign didn’t exactly help its own cause when, during the final debate’s second commercial break, Sink’s makeup assistant brought Sink a phone showing a text message. Sink neither brushed off the assistant nor refused to look at the text. Sink violated debate rules by looking at the message and the fallout has made national headlines.
Given that Sink was already struggling to keep up with Scott’s deep pockets, her campaign needed positive headlines leading up to the election to keep Sink from losing the message war. Blackberrygate certainly doesn’t help that cause, and with Scott gaining amongst likely voters, he has the momentum headed down the final stretch run.
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