David Jolly 47, Alex Sink 43 in New Poll for Open Congress Seat

Submitted by Kevin Derby on January 16, 2014 - 9:35am

A new poll shows David Jolly, the winner of Tuesdays Republican primary, with a slight lead over former state CFO Alex Sink, the Democratic candidate, in the special election for a Tampa Bay congressional seat. St. Pete Polls took a poll of likely voters for Saint PetersBlog which shows Jolly taking 47 percent, Sink at 43 percent, Libertarian Lucas Overby with 4 percent and 6 percent undecided.

For the moment, both candidates are above water. Sink is better known from her time as state CFO and from being the Democratic gubernatorial nominee back in 2010, with 48 percent seeing her as favorable and 43 percent as unfavorable. Jolly is less known with 46 percent seeing him as favorable and 35 percent viewing him as unfavorable.

The poll of 1,278 likely voters was taken on Jan. 15 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percent. More can be read here.

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