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McCain Makes Gains In Florida Polls After Gov's Endorsement
Two new polls show John McCain getting an increase in Florida in the wake of Gov. Charlie Crist's endorsement, taking the lead or tying Mitt Romney after one new day of polling.
From Zogby:
McCain 33% (+3)
Romney 30% (+0)
Giuliani 14% (+1)
Huckabee 11% (-3)
Paul 2% (-1)
Commentary from John Zogby: “It is important to note that popular Florida Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed McCain Saturday and campaigned with him Sunday. Sunday alone, McCain had another big day, winning 38% support to Romney’s 31%."
And from Rasmussen, which also credited Crist's endorsement as one of several factors:
Romney 31% (-2)
McCain 31% (+4)
Giuliani 16% (-2)
Huckabee 11% (-1)
Paul 4% (-2)
We'll all find out tomorrow whether McCain is able to sustain his boost, or whether MItt Romney can pull off the big win, after all.
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Good for you, Mitt! Now see if you can shoot the other foot.
January 28, 2008 8:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
the question is if the endorsement is too late, since many in Florida had already voted. Thus some who might now want to vote for McCain may have already voted for Giuliani. And exit polling tomorrow can only tell us about people actually voting on election day at the normal precinct. not the potentially hundreds of thousands who have already voted.
January 28, 2008 9:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Apart from the fact that lots of people have already voted; there is also the question of organization. I think Romney has the better organization and I dont think one can limit the significance of the organization. It may be able to cover 1% of McCain's lead. Which may be all that is needed.
January 28, 2008 9:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
I prefer McCain over Romney if Dems pull to the Kennedy – Kerry – Clyburn left again and it looks like thats where this hysteria is headed, with this crazy name calling inflammatory myopic focus again on one segment of the Party which is SCREAMING Liberal Fringe Dems are back to the politics of identity as their burning issue and platform and not the Positively America platform as outline in 06 by Schumer. I and many others will be out of here as we have many many more priorities ahead of Social Justice and Teddy Kennedy can keep his lectures and his desire for his view of a Kennedy heir in Obama. This will settle a dilemma for many American who prefer divided government which was the real problem that enabled Bush, well who wants to go down that road again; my combined tax rate is already 48 percent.
January 28, 2008 10:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder how well the pollsters are doing separating out of their samples those who aren't registered Republicans in this no crossover state. Also the huge number of write-ins should reflect people who were still on the Giuliani, Huckabee, Paul and Thompson bandwagons prior McCain's NH and SC driven "inevitability".
Mittmentum!!
January 28, 2008 2:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, based on the numbers in the recent NYT article about early voting, it looks like over 10% of all registered Republicans have already voted! We don't know yet how many R's will vote in total, but, this is fairly significant.
January 28, 2008 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain's appointment of Juan Hernandez as his Director of Hispanic Outreach has shown John for the lair he is. How can he say that he 'get's it" about the border and illegal immigration when he has a man on his staff that is on recorded as saying:
“I work with the community in the United States, the Mexican community because I don‘t want them essentially going native on us. We want them continually tied emotionally, linguistically, politically to Mexico, because then they‘ll continue to send money home.”
and:
“I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think ‘Mexico first.’”
and:
“We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”
A man who said to Congressman Tancredo: “Congressman, it‘s not two countries; it‘s just a region.”
So much for John's promises. Why would anyone elect a man who won't stand up for the sovereignty of this nation. I guess John will go back to call those of us that want secure borders 'Chicken Shit', racist, bigots, zenophobes, that should win him a lot of votes.
January 28, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink