Rasmussen Report: Rubio 40%, Crist 30%, Meek 21%

In the first poll of the race to show how U.S. Senate candidates are faring since Tuesday's primary, Marco Rubio takes a strong lead over Charlie Crist and Kendrick Meek.

Since the last poll, before the primary, Rubio has come up 2 percentage points while Crist has gone down 3. Meek stayed the same.

From Rasmussen:

"With the results of this new survey, Floridas Senate race moves from Tossup to Leans Republican in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Balance of Power summary."

The poll of 750 likely voters was conducted Aug. 25. The margin of sampling error is +/-4 percentage points with a 95 percent level of confidence.

See the how it stacks up with the polling history in our SSN Numbers section.