A new poll shows a slim majority of Florida Democrats are undecided on who they want to run for the U.S. Senate in 2016.
With U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., running for the Republican presidential nomination and not aiming for a second term in the U.S. Senate, Democrats are hoping to flip the Senate seat. But a poll St. Pete Polls released on Wednesday on behalf of Saint Petersblog shows a little more than half of voters are still on the fence.
The poll shows 53 percent of Florida Democrats remain undecided on who they want to be their Senate candidate. U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., takes 20 percent while U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., is right on his heels with 19 percent. Attorney Pam Keith pulls 7 percent.
Both of the male candidates have nailed down their geographic bases. Grayson takes 41 percent of voters in the Orlando TV market while Murphy pulls 65 percent in his West Palm Beach home turf. In Miami, Murphy is up 25 percent to 14 percent.
The poll of 1,080 likely Florida Democratic primary voters was taken from July 18-28 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.
“The poll was conducted through a Web-based email polling system,” St. Pete Polls noted. “The results were then weighted to account for proportional differences between the respondents' demographics and the demographics of the active Republican primary election voter population for the state of Florida. The weighting demographics used were: race, age, gender and media market. The voters polled were chosen at random within the registered voter population within the state of Florida. The random sample used was made up of a sampling of registered Democratic Party voters from the state of Florida.”
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