Florida Senate race

After being off-air for months, GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio rolls out this spot to introduce himself to Florida voters for the general election:

Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, has a new poll out showing Marco Rubio in the lead in a three way race versus independent Charlie Crist and Democrat Kendrick Meek. Heading into today's primary, Meek is leading his Democratic primary opponent Jeff Greene by double digits--which is good news for Marco Rubio and bad news for Charlie Crist. PPP's Tom Jensen explains:

The Hotline's Steven Shepard reports that a new Mason-Dixon poll shows congressman Kendrick Meek leading partyboy billionaire Jeff Greene 40 percent to 26 percent in the Democratic Florida Senate primary.

The new Mason-Dixon poll gives ex-state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) a 38%-33% lead over Crist, with Meek at 18%.

Former Florida House speaker and current GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio just put out the following statement on the Ground Zero mosque:

"We are a nation founded on strong principles of religious freedom. However, we cannot be blind to the pain 9/11 caused our nation and the families of the victims. It is divisive and disrespectful to build a mosque next to the site where 3,000 innocent people were murdered at the hands of Islamic extremism. I strongly disagree with President Obama and Charlie Crist."

In the Florida Senate Democratic primary, billionaire partyboy Jeff Greene and Congressman Kendrick Meek are neck and neck in the polls. Here's a story from the St.

Orlando

Charlie Crist has already flip flopped on education, offshore drilling, and taxpayer-funding of abortion, so his comments in the Wall Street Journal today on Obamacare and Sonia Sotomayor aren't surprising.

The St. Petersburg Times reports Marco Rubio's campaign breaks a quarterly fundraising record:

In California, a new Field Poll of likely voters shows Senator Barbara Boxer leading Republican challenger Carly Fiorina just 47% to 44%. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Marco Rubio told reporters at a Cosi on Capitol Hill this afternoon that repealing Obamacare will be a big issue in the Florida Senate race. "Obamacare should be repealed," Rubio said. "It's going to bankrupt America, it adds $2.5 trillion dollars to our debt in the long term. ... There are better solutions to health care than what's been passed."

A new Chamber of Commerce poll gives Charlie Crist his biggest lead yet since declaring as an independent in the Florida Senate race: Crist takes "42 percent of the vote to Rubio’s 31 percent. Another 14 percent favor Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek, and 12 percent still undecided." According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, Crist has a 4.8% lead over Rubio. (Crist has been ahead of Rubio in four of the past five polls; they were tied in one).

A new poll from Rasmusen shows that Marco Rubio has taken the lead for the first time since it became a three-way race: Rubio 39%, Crist 31%, Meek 18%.