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Gov. Rick Scott will be teaming up with Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday to make his final push for his second term in Tallahassee. Perry will join Scott all over the state, making stops inMiami, Fort Myers, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, and Pensacola.
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made his final pitch to conservatives across the nation on Monday as the GOP hopes to flip the U.S. Senate in Tuesdays elections. Barack Obama and Harry Reid have made our nation less safe and less prosperous, Rubio emailed supporters of his Restore America PAC. Obamacare is a disaster. Regulatory agencies are out of control.
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Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam holds a strong lead going into Election Day. Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, released a poll on Sunday showing Putnam up on Democrat Thad Hamilton. Putnam takes 49 percent in the poll while Hamilton musters 38 percent support. The PPP poll of 1,198 likely voters was taken Nov. 1-2 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percent.
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Florida CFO Jeff Atwater has a commanding lead as he heads into Tuesdays election, looking for another term. Atwater has the edge in a new poll of likely voters from Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to prominent Democrats. The poll, which was unveiled on Sunday, has Atwater out front with 51 percent -- the only statewide candidate who gets a majority in the poll. Rankin lags behind with 37 percent. The PPP poll of 1,198 likely voters was taken Nov. 1-2 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percent.
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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi looks headed for a second term after the results come on Tuesday night. Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to prominent Democrats, released a poll of likely voters on Sunday which shows Bondi with a comfortable lead over former DCF Secretary George Sheldon, the Democratic nominee. Bondi takes 46 percent of voters while Sheldon garners 37 percent. Tallahassee attorney Bill Wohlsifer gets 5 percent on the Libertarian line.
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Amendment 2, a proposal to expand medical marijuana use in the Sunshine State, is going to get a majority of votes but not enough to pass, according to a poll released on Monday. The poll of likely voters taken by St. Pete Polls for Saint PetersBlog shows the proposal coming up short as 54 percent of those surveyed back it and 44 percent oppose it. Only 2 percent are undecided.
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Its dead even in the Florida gubernatorial race according to a new poll released from St. Pete Polls for Saint PetersBlog. The poll of likely voters released on Monday finds Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist taking 45.5 percent apiece. Libertarian Adrian Wyllie garners 6.3 percent while the remaining voters are undecided. The poll of 1,834 likely voters was taken on Nov. 2 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.3 percent.
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Quinnipiac University released a poll on Monday morning which shows Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist running close in Florida with supporters of Libertarian Adrain Wyllie and undecideds holding the balance of power. The poll shows Crist at 42 percent with Scott right on his heels at 41 percent while Wyllie takes 7 percent and 9 percent are undecided. When Wyllie is left out, Crists lead creeps up to 44 percent.
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In the final hours of the Florida gubernatorial race, a new poll shows its neck and neck between Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist -- and the Libertarian candidate could be holding back the Democrat. A poll from Public Policy Polling (PPP), a firm with connections to Democrats, released on Sunday, shows Scott and Crist taking 44 percent apiece while Libertarian Adrian Wyllie gets 6 percent and 6 percent are undecided. When Wyllie is taken out of the mix, Crist inches ahead 47 percent to 46 percent.
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Millions of Florida voters have turned out to vote early in this year's election, and while Republicans are turning out at a slightly higher rate than Democrats, Dems are closing in and narrowing the GOP lead. As of Friday, 43.9percent of GOP voters had turned out to vote either through early voting or absentee ballots compared to 38.7percent of Democrats -- a 5.3 percent lead. The GOP lead has been decreasing daily. Yesterday, their lead stood at 5.9 percent. Still, Republicans lead early voting by 135,000 votes.
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Facing a tough challenge from Democrat Gwen Graham in next weeks election, U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Fla., is going on the attack in the final days of the campaign. This week, Southerlands team launched a new TV ad trying to link Graham to Beltway Democrats and insisting she is looking to cut Medicare. Obama, Pelosi and Gwen Graham are putting your Medicare at risk, the announcer of the ad says.
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Former NBA star Grant Hill sent a fundraising email out on behalf of former Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday night. I was on a lot of great teams in college and in the pros. But this fall I'm thrilled to be on the People's Team -- on Charlie's team, Hill wrote. I live in Florida and love this state, but Rick Scott is taking us in the wrong direction. He killed a job-creating high-speed rail project between my home city of Orlando and Tampa -- and he won't raise the minimum wage or fight for equal pay.
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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., went to bat for Miami-Dade School Board member Carlos Curbelo, the Republican candidate running against U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, D-Fla., sending out a fundraising email for him.
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Why is it when you round up and shake out the fraudsters in Florida around election time, you've got a great chance of winding up with a contributor to a Charlie Crist campaign? Well, it's happened again. I'm sorry -- I don't make this stuff up.
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Time is ticking down until Election Day, and one of the most prominent figures in Florida politics will be lending a last-minute helping hand to Gov. Rick Scott as he makes his final push for re-election. Former Gov. Jeb Bush will be hitting the campaign trail with Gov. Scott this weekend in South Florida, joining the governor on his bus tour to promote early voting. The two will appear together in Hialeah on Sunday.
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