Rasmussen – Rubio Ahead by 18 Points in Florida Senate race

Florida Republican Senate Primary

Survey of 442 Likely Republican Primary Voters

February 18, 2010

Suppose the Republican Primary for the 2010 United States Senate were held today. Would you vote for Charlie Crist or Marco Rubio?

Charlie Crist

36%

Marco Rubio

54%

Some other candidate

4%

Not sure

7%

2* I’m going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression

Very favorable

Somewhat favorable

Somewhat unfavorable

Very unfavorable

Not sure

Charlie Crist

16%

38%

30%

14%

2%

Marco Rubio

34%

33%

11%

4%

18%

3* How would you rate the job Charlie Crist has been doing as Governor… do you strongly

approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been

doing?

8% Strongly approve

40% Somewhat approve

29% Somewhat disapprove

20% Strongly disapprove

3% Not sure

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
via Toplines – Florida Republican Primary for Senate – February 18, 2010 – Rasmussen Reports™.