Poll: Nelson would defeat Harris for U.S. Senate in Florida

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http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/politics/11948146.htm

Poll: Nelson would defeat Harris for U.S. Senate in Florida

A new statewide poll confirmed what many Republicans had feared: Katherine Harris is as controversial now as she was in 2000.

BY LESLEY CLARK

Miami Herald


TALLAHASSEE - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson would easily defeat Republican challenger U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris if the 2006 Senate election were today, according to a new poll that underscores the queasiness some Republicans feel about a Harris candidacy.

The Mason-Dixon Polling Research survey shows the freshman Democratic senator cruising to a second term with 53 percent of the vote in 2006, compared to just 36 percent for Harris, who has a favorable rating just two points higher than her unfavorable rating, the poll shows.

The poll of 625 registered voters was conducted June 14-16, just days before reports surfaced that Gov. Jeb Bush and the White House were prodding state House Speaker Allan Bense into challenging Harris in the GOP primary.

The results provide a window into GOP fears that Harris -- whom some Democrats believe tilted the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush when she served as Florida secretary of state -- remains controversial and would motivate Democrats to turn out to vote against her, potentially affecting the other races on the ballot, including the governor's race

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[SteppingRazor]

1. Hardly surprising...

I've been saying all along that Harris has no chance in a statewide election. She can win in a safely Republican district, but that's as far as her political career can possibly go. Too many people in the mushy middle see her the same way the Dems do -- as a treacherous GOP apparatchik.

[AndyTiedye]

6. The GOP Will FIX The Votes Around Their Candidate

Karl's minions are already working on the AP story about here
"miraculous, come-from-20-points-behind victory", and trying to
come up with some plausible explanation for it.

[LibDemAlways]

2. Never underestimate the power of

the GOP to tamper with the vote. Next November the whores may well be trumpeting Harris's "amazing come-from-behind upset."

[i miss america]

3. ITA. I don't trust our paperless touchscreen voting machines

and I fear Cruella deHarris will miraculously win.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[YDogg]

4. Nelson woudl get my vote ...

... but I fear my vote will be cancelled by some Diebold operative in a dark room somewhere in the white house.

[davidinalameda]

5. Run Cruella Run!

whoo hoo!!!!!!

[BattyDem]

7. Polls don't matter when you have Diebold

:-(

[Jack Rabbit]

8. A Grand Jury should beat Harris with a few counts of election fraud

!!