{"id":2975,"date":"2013-01-16T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2013-01-16T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T18:52:09","slug":"scott-in-a-very-bad-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/scott-in-a-very-bad-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott in a very bad position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/florida-governor-inflates-cost-of-medicaid-expansion-by-2600-to-avoid-implementing-obamacare\/rick_scott\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2934\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2934\" alt=\"Rick_Scott\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott.jpg\" width=\"132\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott.jpg 220w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rick_Scott-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>40% of Republicans would prefer someone else<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s approval rating is just 33%, with 57% of voters disapproving of him. Scott&#8217;s numbers had gradually improved over the course of 2012, but these numbers represent a regression from early November when he was at a 37\/48 spread. Scott meets with near universal disapproval from Democrats (21\/71) and independents (32\/64) and is even on pretty shaky ground with Republicans (49\/38).<\/p>\n<p>Crist meanwhile is being embraced by Democrats. His favorability rating with them is 70\/16. That&#8217;s a big improvement from early September when it was just 44\/33. The party&#8217;s unified around him since his official switch last month. 52% of Democratic primary voters say they&#8217;d like for Crist to be their candidate for Governor next year, compared to 18% for Alex Sink, 13% for Pam Iorio, 4% for Buddy Dyer, and 1% for Nan Rich.<\/p>\n<p>Crist would start out as the favorite in a showdown with Scott. He leads 53-39, most notably taking a whooping 29% of the Republican vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/main\/2013\/01\/scott-in-a-very-bad-position.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scott in a very bad position &#8211; Public Policy Polling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40% of Republicans would prefer someone else Scott&#8217;s approval rating is just 33%, with 57% of voters disapproving of him. Scott&#8217;s numbers had gradually improved over the course of 2012, but these numbers represent a regression from early November when he was at a 37\/48 spread. Scott meets with near universal disapproval from Democrats (21\/71)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1608,22,7],"tags":[63,26,322,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}