Posted on 09/19/2018 7:43:23 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Democrat Andrew Gillum holds a 6-point lead over Ron DeSantis (R) in the hotly contested gubernatorial campaign in Florida, according to a new poll.
The Reuters–Ipsos–UVA Center for Politics poll found that 50 percent of voters surveyed support Gillum, compared to 44 percent who back DeSantis.
The remaining percentage of voters said they support a different candidate or did not indicate support for any candidate.
Gillum and DeSantis are running to replace outgoing Gov. Rick Scott (R), who is term-limited and running for Senate. The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, rates the gubernatorial contest a “toss-up.”
The Reuters poll shows Gillum with a slightly larger cushion than most other polls have shown thus far.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls in shows Gillum with a lead of roughly 4 percentage points.
Gillum, currently the mayor of Tallahassee, has earned the backing of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and has campaigned on a progressive agenda that includes expanding Medicare to cover everyone.
DeSantis, who resigned as a congressman earlier this month to focus on campaigning for governor, has received the endorsement of President Trump.
DeSantis sparked controversy just a day after he and Gillum won their respective primaries when he urged voters not to “monkey this up” by voting for Gillum, who would be the state's first African-American governor, and his policies in the November election.
His comments prompted fierce backlash, with critics suggesting the remarks had racial undertones or were outright racist.
DeSantis denied that race had anything to do with his comments, but instead argued he was focusing on "ideas and principles."
The Reuters–Ipsos–UVA Center for Politics poll surveyed 1,000 voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Who would vote for this ignorant socialist? I guess a lot of brain-dead Rat voters.
Desantis needs to get back on the Trump train quick!
Wife and I are both voting for DeSantis. Every poll has Gillum in the lead. This guy would be a disaster for Florida.
Reuters-Ipsos huh?
They predicted Hitlery would pick up FL. Trump won.
We’re positive they cheated w fake votes, etc to get him be a candidate
Gillum will draw an astronomical minority turnout. DeSantis has run a lackluster campaign, and he’s nowhere near where he should have been at this point. Both Scott and DeSantis are lukewarm and made huge missteps. From my perspective, Scott will trounce the slug, but DeSantis needs to kick it in gear. Complacency will kill Florida.
Uncle Ben in Florida. Aunt Jemima in Georgia.
These recent polls are hiding their internals. Polls used to link to their internals so you could see # men/women, age distribution, race, political identification. Without being able to see those ratios polls are useless.
These are propaganda, push polls designed to dishearten the right & depress the vote while getting the left excited about voting.
Like most polls seem to be, this one is probably Fake.
Mike Pence needs to campaign for candidates too.
The downside of diversity ...
How many of these poll “results” will it take for folks to realize that polls are, at best, slanted one way or the other?
Another more realistic and down to earth way of looking at this is to declare that all polls are garbage.
DeSantis has twelve votes in our family. This gent Gillum is the “Wendy Davis” of Florida. He will be quite easy to defeat. You all simply got to do is get out and vote for Ron DeSantis...not sit on your butts at and “bitch”. GOP....GOTV....Get Out The Vote!!! Support DeSantis, Support, POTUS, Trump, Go, MAGA!!!
A dozen DeSantis votes here.
Need a Trump Rally before the vote. Maybe Hannity, too.
The Democrats won!
All Freepers can stay home. Why, the fake polls said so!
Check LS work on all of this
His analytics are good so are his sources
Fear not....Trumpie will be in Florida a few times before the November election. Obama, Clinton & Biden are all Zeroes when it comes to campaigning as Trump does it.
Obama can only utter the word “I”, Clinton cannot get more the 500 folks to any rally and Biden...well, Biden is just as stupid & dumb as they come!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.