[New post] "29 per cent!"

Monday, May 30, 2011

[New post] "29 per cent!"

"29 per cent!"

Chipsticks | May 30, 2011 at 10:00 am | Categories: All Photos, Articles | URL: http://wp.me/pUgO9-9Kg

Politico: Six months ago, in the wake of the wipe-out midterm elections, moderate Florida Sen. Bill Nelson privately vented that President Barack Obama, weighed down by his health reform effort and muddled messaging, was "toxic" for Democrats back home.

Yet Obama's approval rating has surged from 42 percent to 51 percent in the last month, and Nelson is now openly embracing the president, pronouncing himself dutifully "fired up" at an Obama-hosted Miami fundraiser this spring.

What's changed? …Obama's biggest asset in a critical swing state he won by a mere 2.8-percentage-point margin in 2008 might be Rick Scott, the wildly unpopular Republican governor Democrats are casting as Lex Luthor to Obama's Clark Kent.

…A Quinnipiac University poll last week showed Scott's approval rating at 29 percent and his disapproval rating at 57 percent - by far the lowest approval rating of any governor in the country.

"The double whammy for any Republican running in Florida is Rick Scott and Medicare," said Debbie Wasserman..."Rick Scott is at 29 percent - 29 percent!" she added.

Broward County political blogger Brandon Thorp summed it up this way: "If presidential and gubernatorial elections were held in Florida today, no declared Republican presidential candidate could unseat Obama, while Rick Scott would have a hard time beating Raul Castro."

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