Despite being the ultimate "purple" state in 2000, Florida appears to have solidly trended red since, at least in presidential elections. That's underscored by the latest round of surveys from the Fox 5-The Washington Times-Rasmussen Reports poll.
The Florida poll, taken Nov. 14 of 500 likely voters, found Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mitt Romney would all defeat Hillary Rodham Clinton in a head-to-head match-up. McCain had the largest lead, at 10 percentage points, 48-38, while Giuliani had the smallest lead at 5 points, 46-41.
In 2004, President Bush beat Sen. John Kerry 52 percent to 47 percent to win Florida's 27 electoral votes — the fourth-largest total on the map.
In the Times-Rasmussen poll's favorability ratings, Giuliani led with 58 percent rating him very or somewhat favorable. Thompson scored 56 percent, Romney had 52 percent and McCain 51 percent. Clinton garnered 45 percent, with 40 percent rating her "very unfavorable."
A Mason-Dixon poll released this week also found Republicans beating Clinton, though their survey found Giuliani the best Republican match-up.
— Stephen Dinan, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (3)
It's not that Florida has gone red, it's that you are using Hillary as the Dem candidate.
I continue to be amazed that the media acts as if Hillary is just some regular old democrat, and not the polarizing, disliked woman she is.
The sooner Dems realize Hillary is the weakest genral election candidate, the better.
Posted by jds | November 21, 2007 1:37 PM
Great News Obama would loose too
Posted by David | November 22, 2007 6:40 PM
It's not that Florida is trending Republican, it's just the positions of the candidates on taxes, illegals, and the War on Terrorism.
Posted by James Pratt | November 24, 2007 3:15 PM