In the Florida Senate race, a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll released Thursday offered a new suggestion that Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek could be competitive in a general election race with former Republican state House Speaker Marco Rubio. According to Kos's poll, Rubio would lead Meek by only one point, 41 percent to 40 percent. Fifty-seven percent of voters said they have no opinion of Meek, while Kos notes "Rubio is now well into net-negative territory," with 29 percent of voters saying they had a favorable impression of him and 36 percent saying the opposite. Rubio leads Gov. Charlie Crist by 28 points in the GOP primary.
Whatever questions the left may be raising about his electability, Rubio ended the week with yet another embrace from a national conservative icon. His campaign held a joint conference call to discuss health care reform with Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the ranking member of the Budget Committee, who told listeners: "We need reinforcements in Washington," adding that he wants to "beg" Floridians to elect politicians with "proven records of when the going gets tough, they don't go wobbly in the knees." Rubio returned the favor with an enthusiastic endorsement of Ryan's "road map" for the federal budget, calling it "by far the most serious proposal out there to deal with things like entitlement reform."
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