New Poll: Rick Scott Beating Bill McCollum by 10 Points

While two polls have shown Attorney General Bill McCollum ahead of Rick Scott in the bitterly fought contest for the Republican gubernatorial nod, a new poll released on Friday, taken by Ispos and commissioned by the St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald, has Scott ahead.

The poll has Scott with 42 percent and McCollum at 32 percent, with 23 percent still undecided. While a poll by Mason-Dixon had state CFO Alex Sink, the likely Democratic candidate in the race, beating Scott 40 to 24 percent, the Ispos poll has Scott ahead of Sink by a whisker, 30 to 29 percent. The Ispos poll has Sink ahead of McCollum, 30 to 26 percent.

The Ispos poll of 602 Floridians was conducted from Aug. 6-10. The margin of error is +/- 4 percent on the general election and +/- 5.9 percent on the Republican contest.