Jeff Atwater Easily Besting William Rankin in New Poll

A new poll shows Florida CFO Jeff Atwater routing Democratic businessman William Rankin.

The poll of likely voters from Viewpoint Florida finds Atwater taking 54 percent while Rankin garners 38 percent and 7 percent are undecided.

Atwater has the GOP base nailed down, taking 81 percent of Republicans while Rankin has the support of 69 percent of Democrats. Voters outside the two major parties break for Atwater, 56 percent to 35 percent.

The poll of 1,050 likely voters was taken on Oct. 12 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.