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Poll: Rick Scott and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in heated race to win Florida Senate seat.
WASHINGTON - Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., are in a contentious neck to neck battle to win Floridas Senate seat in November, according to a new poll released Friday.
The Hill/Emerson College poll, conducted between Sept. 3 and Sept. 5, found that 46% of likely Florida voters choose Scott while 45% choose Mucarsel-Powell. Nine percent said they were undecided.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/06/florida-senate-scott/75099632007/
Fla Dem
(25,147 posts)Omnipresent
(6,118 posts)Scott might get washed away!
peppertree
(22,579 posts)And lucky him - because his home planet sure as hell doesn't want him back.
barbtries
(29,406 posts)1. Women's rights being taken away
2. Scott's criminal history
https://democrats.org/news/one-of-the-largest-defrauders-of-medicare-in-history-still-wants-to-gut-medicare/
Rhiagel
(1,711 posts)I wonder if the senior citizens in Florida even know that was/is his plan. This should be playing 24/7 over the airwaves in the Villages.
Seinan Sensei
(588 posts)Is he actually capable of this?
Yes!
Have you ever seen Rick Scott and Skeletor in the same room together?
No!
Therefore I would contend that Rick Scott actually IS Skeletor!
Below are actual quotes of SKELETOR. I report. You decide.
I could write a book about what you dont know!
This is becoming a wonderful day for evil!
This planet, these people They are nothing to me the universe is power, pure, unstoppable power and I am that force, I am that power!
I am not nice, I am not kind, and I am not wonderful!
Kneel before your master
for you are no longer my equal, I am more than man, more than life! I am a god!
I am completely and utterly evil. I live to be bad! I care for no one and no one cares for me.
ColinC
(9,846 posts)Keeping up the momentum
IcyPeas
(22,305 posts)Deuxcents
(18,463 posts)Most do not know the history of Rick Scott n his theft of Medicare funds n his policies for the benefit of the wealthy and his lack of policies for every day Floridians. I hope we can unseat this corrupt man
appmanga
(806 posts)...she can win this race. The only thing she lacks is money. I wish I could help more, but my limited resources are going to her and Colin Allred. Both of them are competing hard in expensive markets against two of the least popular Senators in Congress in states where women are going to make the GOP pay for what they're doing to them. If you can give them any amount of money, do it.
ETA: And Scott, the Senator from FL wants to cut Medicare and Social Security. That's either way too smug, or a political death wish. Either way, he can be beat. Don't let the presidential polls convince you FL is a lost cause for other offices.
lindysalsagal
(21,842 posts)ancianita
(37,657 posts)CaptainTruth
(7,095 posts)Thanks!
ancianita
(37,657 posts)There's a lot bubbling under the surface of Florida that smash common stereotypes.
Wiz Imp
(328 posts)Their percentage in the sample was right in line with their percentage of overall registered voters.
Sample: 53.6% women
Registered Voters: 53.4% women
https://voterrecords.com/charts/fl
GiqueCee
(1,183 posts)... "To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. Can I interest you in the chicken? she asks. Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? The undecided voter asks, "How is the chicken cooked?"
The malignant spawn of an unholy union between Lurch and Uncle Fester is the richest member of the Senate. He is also one of, if not the worst, member of the Senate. He is a disease whose only cure is expulsion from the Senate, if not from the Human Race.
I have only undying contempt for anyone that supports that putrid bag of rat excrement. And that support says nothing good about their judgement or their character. I mean, he's a Senator from Heaven's Waiting Room, and he has stated that, if given the chance, he will take away their fucking Social Security! They're either blithering idiots, just as evil as he is, or, most likely, both.
ancianita
(37,657 posts)21.3% of Florida are over age 65, 78.7% are under.
https://www.prb.org/resources/which-us-states-are-the-oldest/
Leave out the juvenile demographic, you get 57.13% of voting Floridians under 65.
https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/florida-population-by-age/
Scott's got bad guy history and Mucarsel-Powell presents a clean break. If The Villages are nuts for Harris, add university towns, the Gen Z vote, and pro-choice Republican women hiding out as registered Independents, she's got a real shot.
GiqueCee
(1,183 posts)ancianita
(37,657 posts)GiqueCee
(1,183 posts)... I enjoy a nice, juicy cynical stereotype now and then, especially when applied to an evil piece of shit like Scott.
Have a nice day.
surfered
(1,925 posts)GiqueCee
(1,183 posts)... to get rid of Rhonda Sepsis and his go-go boots while you're at it.
TommieMommy
(607 posts)BlueSky3
(657 posts)speaking Spanish as well, and has launched her own channels on Whatsapp in both Spanish and English; that a great many Spanish speakers get their news this way and its a way to communicate directly with voters. I sent her more money today.
It sounds like we need to really support Debbie, Bob Casey, Jon Tester, Sherrod Brown and Colin Allred to save the Senate.
CaptainTruth
(7,095 posts)Of course as a Republican Rick Scott is bilingual as well.
He's fluent in both Lies & Bullshit.
lpbk2713
(43,089 posts)He talks out of both sides of his mouth.
UhWhatNow
(16 posts)As I posted in another thread, the Emerson polls for Texas and Florida oversampled women by 9 points. Hopefully resources wont be wasted going to these states based on these polls alone.
CaptainTruth
(7,095 posts)When you say they "oversampled" women by 9 points that implies you know how they modeled the electorate & then deliberately didnt follow their own model.
Any argument about "oversampling" needs to be supported by 1) detailed info on how the pollster modeled the electorate, 2) data supporting exactly why that electorate model is accurate (or not) to a high degree of certainty, & 3) how they statistically reconciled the respondent rate with their electorate model.
I'm not being negative here, I genuinely want to know how they modeled the electorate, including all the details "why," & I genuinely want to see evidence that, once they developed an electorate model that they had a high degree of confidence in, they deliberately disregarded it & made a grade school level mistake like including an oversampling of one particular group without statistically adjusting for it in their model. That's one of the most basic mistakes anyone can make, high school kids would fail a statistics test if they did that, but you're saying this pollster did that?
I'm all ears...
Sneederbunk
(14,862 posts)madville
(7,447 posts)A majority of those 19% undecided independents just dont want to admit theyre gonna vote republican. Crist was within single digits of DeSantis in some 2022 polls that had an undecided option and then lost by 20%.
CaptainTruth
(7,095 posts)...Dems in FL, not like Kamala has.
Crist is not a good data point to use for comparison.
lpbk2713
(43,089 posts)I hope it bodes well.
Initech
(101,101 posts)Rick Scott is a piece of shit and we've long known he's a piece of shit. We have got to get rid of these people!
Persondem
(2,001 posts)having a chance at picking up a Senate seat is worth it .... (and also in TX and saving Tester in MT)