According to a new poll out this week, Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) is in a statistical tie in a proposed matchup with incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in 2018.
A University of North Florida survey of 834 registered voters with a 3.39 percent margin of error showed if the 2018 election for U.S. Senate were held today, 37 percent of respondents would vote for Nelson, 36 percent for Scott and 27 percent said they would vote for someone else or did not know for who they would vote.
“Like most statewide races in Florida, the senate race between Nelson and Scott is going to be too close to call all the way until Election Day,” Michael Binder, the faculty director of the Public Opinion Research Lab at UNF, said in a statement. “The one major concern for Democrats has to be the public’s lack of awareness of Nelson. When a three-term sitting U.S. senator has almost half of the sample unable to assess his job approval, you have a problem.”
Scott is in a much better position than he was eight months ago. A poll taken by UNF in February showed the split 44-38 for Nelson over Scott.
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