New Poll: Charlie Crist Leads Rick Scott By Double Digits
It's not you, Charlie Crist: it's Rick Scott.
A new poll shows the incumbent Republican governor of Florida is struggling so much that Crist, who is viewed favorably by only 43 percent of respondents, still leads Scott by a 12 point margin (50-38) in hypothetical 2014 gubernatorial race.
Crist has yet to announce as expected that he'll run against Scott, and the Orlando Sentinel deemed the poll "laughably too early to mean jack."
But what it does show is that Scott's numbers remain roughly the same -- and very, very bad. Public Policy Polling noted in a release that he continues to be one of the most unpopular governors in the country, with a 33 percent approval and 55 percent disapproval rating.
In fact, the firm reports there are only five governors on whom it has conducted polls who've ever put up worse net approval ratings than Scott, who campaigned on job creation and whose first term has been mired in court fights against Obamacare and to drug test state workers and welfare recipients.
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... just as Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, and Nixon advanced and/or advocated policies to the left of many current Democratic "centrist" positions.
The intellectual father of capitalism, Adam Smith, would not only be unwelcome in movement "conservatism" today, but would indubitably be castigated as a "communist" because of his distrust of monopolies and corporations, and his advocacy of government regulation to curb monopoly power and to aid the poor, not to mention his early advocacy of universal government financed education.
And even Goldwater was already a persona non grata in the GOP before his death.
