It looks like it’s going to go right down to the wire (again) in Florida, where the Governor’s race is now a dead heat:
The race to be Florida’s governor is a dead heat on the eve of the election, with Democrat Alex Sink, the state’s chief financial officer, getting 44 percent of likely voters and Republican Rick Scott at 43 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican, has a wide lead in the race for the U.S. Senate with 45 percent of the vote, while Gov. Charlie Crist, running as an independent, gets 31 percent and Democratic U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek receives 18 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University survey, conducted by live interviewers and concluding Sunday night, finds.
“Marco Rubio is comfortably ahead in the race to be Florida’s next U.S. senator. But the governor’s race is a different story. It is a dead heat and either candidate could be the state’s next governor,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.