Do you approve or disapprove of the way Charlie Crist is handling his job as governor of Florida?
Approve 48% (53%) {51%} [53%] (52%)
Disapprove 38% (41%) {38%} [41%] (39%)
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as President?
Approve 43%
Disapprove 51%
Do you favor or oppose raising the age at which a person can retire and receive Social Security benefits?
Favor 24%
Oppose 68%
Do you favor or oppose raising the age at which a person can retire and receive Social Security benefits if it only affects Americans who are younger than 55?
Favor 27%
Oppose 64%
Do you believe that the health care plan passed by Congress earlier this year should remain in place or should be repealed?
Should remain in place 34%
Should be repealed 52%
Survey of 577 likely voters, was conducted October 15-19, 2010. The margin of error is +/- 4.1 percentage points. Results from the poll conducted September 10-12, 2010 are in parentheses. Results from the poll conducted August 6-10, 2010 are in curly brackets. Results from the poll conducted July 9-11, 2010 are in square brackets. Results from the poll conducted May 14-18, 2010 are in parentheses.
Inside the numbers:
Meek is winning 42 percent of Democratic voters, compared to 36 percent for Crist, while 70 percent of Republicans are backing Rubio and only 17 percent Crist. The governor is leading among independent voters with 40 percent, compared to 21 percent for Rubio and 5 percent for Meek.
Survey of 577 likely voters was conducted October 15-19, 2010. The margin of error is +/- 4.1 percentage points. Party ID breakdown: 45% Republican; 40% Democrat; 8% Independent. Results from the poll conducted September 10-12, 2010 are in square brackets.
A month ago, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kendrick Meek predicted that if he beat billionaire Jeff Greene for the Democratic nomination, he'd ride a wave of momentum and national attention toward victory in November.
It hasn't happened. In poll after poll the Miami Democrat appears stuck in the low 20s and in some cases with less than 20 percent support. He and Republican Marco Rubio have succeeded in dragging down independent candidate Charlie Crist's support, but the only result has been to give Rubio a comfortable double-digit lead.
The election is a month away, Meek presumably has little money left, and he has yet to alleviate widespread doubts about his viability. Very soon, Democrats will have to ask themselves how badly they want to beat Rubio and who has a shot at doing that, former Republican Crist or lifelong Democrat Meek.
