{"id":1540,"date":"2009-10-22T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T22:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2009-10-22T18:38:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T22:38:43","slug":"both-republicans-lead-democrat-in-florida-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1540\/both-republicans-lead-democrat-in-florida-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Republicans Lead Democrat In Florida Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Rasmussen public opinion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2010\/election_2010_senate_elections\/florida\/election_2010_florida_senate\" target=\"_blank\">poll released today<\/a>, both Republican candidates in the 2010 Florida Senate race lead their likely Democrat counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>Current Republican Governor Charlie Crist leads Democrat Kendrick Meek by a 46% to 34% margin in the contest to replace retired Republican Senator Mel Martinez.\u00a0 Similarly, former Republican Congressman Marco Rubio leads Meek by a 46% to 31% margin.\u00a0 Interestingly, Rubio&#8217;s 15-point lead is larger than his 13-point lead from August, whereas Crist&#8217;s 12-point lead over Meek is down from his 19-point lead in August and 21-point lead last June.\u00a0 Accordingly, the GOP primary shapes up as an interesting race, with Rubio receiving increasing publicity and praise from such conservative publications as <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=NmQyMWQwYTQzMGJlNGM0OGNjYmRhNmY4N2NjOWMzMWQ=&amp;w=MA==\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Review<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the fact that Florida &#8220;turned blue&#8221; in the 2008 election, the Republicans&#8217; substantial lead appears to suggest that\u00a0Sunshine State voters\u00a0do not like President Obama&#8217;s policy prescriptions, and are expressing a sort of &#8220;buyers&#8217; remorse.&#8221;\u00a0 Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Rasmussen public opinion poll released today, both Republican candidates in the 2010 Florida Senate race lead their likely Democrat counterpart. Current Republican Governor Charlie Crist leads Democrat Kendrick Meek by a 46% to 34% margin in the contest to replace retired Republican Senator Mel Martinez.\u00a0 Similarly, former Republican Congressman Marco Rubio leads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}