FL: Poll Shows Independent with Significant Support in Gubernatorial Race

From the Ledger:

Bud Chiles, son of the late Gov. Lawton Chiles, who announced only last week that he will run for governor as an independent candidate, is off to a relatively good start for his first race, a USF political science professor said.

 Results from a Quinnipiac University Poll released today showed that if the candidates for governor were Republican Rick Scott, Democratic Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Chiles, the independent, Chiles would get 13 percent of the vote.  Scott would get 35 percent and Sink 26 percent with 26 who didn’t know or gave no answer.

If the candidates for governor were Sink, Chiles and Attorney Gen. Bill McCollum as the Republican, Chiles would get 19 percent, according to the poll. McCollum would get 33 percent and Sink would get 25 percent with 23 percent of voters interviewed in the poll saying they didn’t know or gave no answer.