{"id":643288,"date":"2010-01-26T07:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/26\/rubio-leads-crist-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2010-01-26T07:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T12:40:43","slug":"rubio-leads-crist-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/643288","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Leads Crist in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/0rn77DJmviE\/rubio_leads_crist_in_florida.html\" >Rubio Leads Crist in Florida             <\/a><br \/>A new Quinnipiac poll in Florida finds Marco Rubio (R) now leading Gov. Charlie Crist (R) in the Republican race for U.S. Senate, 47% to 44%.<\/p>\n<p>  Said pollster Peter Brown: &#8220;Who would have thunk it?  A former state lawmaker virtually unknown outside of his South Florida home whose challenge to  an exceedingly popular sitting governor for a U.S. Senate nomination had many insiders scratching their heads.  He enters the race 31 points behind and seven months later sneaks into the lead. And, the horse race numbers are not a fluke. Rubio also tops Crist on a number of other measurements from registered Republicans, who are the only folks who can vote in the primary.  Rubio&#8217;s grassroots campaigning among Republican activists around the state clearly has paid off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Rubio also beats Rep. Kendrick Meek (D) in a general election match up, 44% to 35%. Crist leads Meek, 48% to 36%.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/0rn77DJmviE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio Leads Crist in Florida A new Quinnipiac poll in Florida finds Marco Rubio (R) now leading Gov. Charlie Crist (R) in the Republican race for U.S. Senate, 47% to 44%. Said pollster Peter Brown: &#8220;Who would have thunk it? A former state lawmaker virtually unknown outside of his South Florida home whose challenge to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HlC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}