Rick Scott and Charlie Crist Running Close in New Poll

A new poll shows the Florida gubernatorial race is down to the wire with three weeks to go.

St. Pete Polls took a survey on behalf of SaintPetersBlog which shows Gov. Rick Scott with the narrowest of leads, holding off Democratic challenger former Gov. Charlie Crist 44 percent to 43 percent. Libertarian Adrian Wyllie takes 8 percent while 5 percent are still undecided.

When the 5 percent who are undecided are asked if they have a preference, the numbers barely move. In that scenario, Scott moves up to 45 percent while Crist remains on his heels with 44 percent. Wyllie stays with 8 percent.

Both Scott and Crist are upside down in the poll. Scott is seen as favorable by 41 percent of those surveyed while 51 percent see him as unfavorable. Crist is seen as unfavorable by 52 percent of those surveyed while 40 percent view him as favorable.

The poll of 3,128 Florida registered voters who said they were planning to vote in the election was taken from Oct. 8-11 and had a margin of error of +/- 1.8 percent.