Things aren’t looking good for Florida Governor Charlie Crist. His rival for the Republican nomination in the Florida senate race, Marco Rubio, is now leading by 18 points. Wow!

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Chamber rolled out its latest poll for members today at their annual Capitol Days meeting, and it’s yet more bad news for Gov. Charlie Crist.

The poll supposedly found Marco Rubio up 48-30 over Crist in the U.S. Senate primary. Back in October, the chamber’s usually trustworthy surveying found Crist leading Rubio 44-30.

This might explain why brain dead talking heads such as MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch are already sharpening their claws for attack. Witness the network which loves to accuse people of racism as they allow a commentator to refer to Marco Rubio as a “coconut” which is a racist term meaning brown on the outside and white on the inside. Classy.

UPDATE: Deutsch apologizes for using the “coconut” slur.

According to a new poll conducted by Suffolk University and Channel 7 of Boston, Scott Brown is now leading Martha Coakley by four points. Brown 50% to Coakley 46%.

This is great news for Scott Brown. The Boston Herald reports:

Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.

Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.

“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”

Change in the political landscape. Hmm.. I seem to remember another writer using those exact words.

For an excellent analysis of this poll, be sure to read this post from Allahpundit at Hot Air.

Jessica Taylor at The Politico has more:

Brown’s favorability ratings are also higher than Coakley’s, with 57 percent saying they have a favorable opinion of the state senator and just 19 percent having an unfavorable opinion. Forty-nine percent say they have a favorable opinion of Coakley, while 41 percent have an unfavorable opinion of the attorney general.

Against the backdrop of an election that could possibly play a decisive role in the health care debate—a point both parties have begun to press on their supporters—51 percent said they did not support the health care bill, with 36 percent supported it. Sixty-one percent said they didn’t believe the government could afford such a plan.

A plurality of respondents also believe Brown fared better during the televised debates between the candidates, with 41 percent saying they believed Brown won, compared to just 25 percent for Coakley.

FOOTNOTE: Here’s why Obama isn’t coming to Massachusetts…

With Mrs. Coakley flagging in the polls and Republican Scott Brown closing fast — one recent polls puts him 2 points ahead — Mr. Obama has decided to keep his fingerprints off a race that would be an embarrassment for Democrats should they lose, given that Mr. Obama won the state in 2008 by a 27 point margin.

Scott Brown can win this election and if he does, get ready to hear the loudest gnashing of teeth from the Democrat political establishment since Reagan turned Massachusetts red in 1980.

UPDATE: Scott Brown has raised a million dollars a day, every day this week.

UPDATE II: Martha Coakley says Catholics shouldn’t work in Emergency Rooms.

Big. Freaking. News.

A new Rasmussen Poll on the Massachusetts senate race has just been published. Coakley is at 49% and Brown is at 47%.

The best part? Brown is leading among independents by 71% to 23%!!!

The Massachusetts’ special U.S. Senate election has gotten tighter, but the general dynamics remain the same.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley attracting 49% of the vote while her Republican rival, state Senator Scott Brown, picks up 47%.

Three percent (3%) say they’ll vote for independent candidate Joe Kennedy, and two percent (2%) are undecided. The independent is no relation to the late Edward M. Kennedy, whose Senate seat the candidates are battling to fill in next Tuesday’s election.

Coakley is supported by 77% of Democrats while Brown picks up the vote from 88% of Republicans. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Brown leads 71% to 23%. To be clear, this lead is among unaffiliated voters who are likely to participate in the special election.

Oof. That’s gonna leave a mark…

Washington (CNN) – Americans are giving Barack Obama a split decision on his first year in office, according to a new national poll.

Forty-eight percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday say Obama’s presidency has been a failure so far, with 47 percent saying Obama has been a success. The poll’s January 12 release comes just 8 days before Obama marks one year in the White House.

There’s been a lot of talk recently about accuracy and polls. I don’t see how the White House can go after CNN though.

Rasmussen’s Daily Tracking poll still has Obama in the negative double digits as well.

This is amazing.

The Massachusetts Senate race is now a toss up.

Buoyed by a huge advantage with independents and relative disinterest from Democratic voters in the state, Republican Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 48-47.

Brown has eye popping numbers with independents, sporting a 70/16 favorability rating with them and holding a 63-31 lead in the horse race with Coakley. Health care may be hurting Democratic fortunes with that group, as only 27% of independents express support for Obama’s plan with 59% opposed.

Hang onto your hats, the next week is going to be insane.

It’s still too early and murky to say one way or the other how the Massachusetts special senate election is going to go on January 19th but Rasmussen released a new poll today that shows Coakley’s lead over Brown has shrunk to less than ten percent.

That’s amazing….

State Attorney General Martha Coakley holds a nine-point lead over her Republican rival, state Senator Scott Brown, in Massachusetts’ special U.S. Senate election to fill the seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Coakley ahead of Brown 50% to 41%. One percent (1%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided.

The special Senate election will be held on January 19 and special elections typically feature low turnout. That’s one reason the race appears to be a bit closer than might typically be expected for a Senate race in Massachusetts. Kennedy carried 69% of the vote when he was reelected in 2006.

Massachusetts voters in the Boston Metro area tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, but this is a special election in more ways than one. There are at least 3 good reasons why MA voters could defy history and give the election to Scott Brown.

1. Many MA voters are just as fed up as the rest of the country with the Democrat agenda of big spending, big government and big bills rushed through in the middle of the night. They know that a win for Scott Brown pulls an emergency brake on the Democrat runaway train.

2. MA Governor Deval Patrick is very unpopular with MA voters right now. He has broken pledges not to raise taxes and doesn’t have a lot to show for his time as governor. People in MA are not happy.

3. Martha Coakley doesn’t really have much to show for her record. If people were excited about her as a candidate, she would have a much more commanding lead over Brown. She’s trying to coast into office based on the “D” after her name. Under normal circumstances, that might work. These are not normal circumstances.

We’ll know how this story ends on January 19th. Scott Brown is campaigning like a trooper, traveling the state and doing lots of media interviews. As someone who lives in the Bay State, I can tell you that I hear a lot of people talking about Scott Brown, not his opponent.

More at Memeorandum.

What happens when the Democrats don’t like the poll results reported by the most accurate pollster in the United States?

They attack the pollster, of course….

“Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency.”

“The pointed attacks reflect a hardening conventional wisdom among prominent liberal bloggers and many Democrats that Rasmussen Reports polls are, at best, the result of a flawed polling model and, at worst, designed to undermine Democratic politicians and the party’s national agenda.”

Obama’s tanking poll numbers can’t possibly have anything to do with his agenda or his stupid policy decisions.

It must be racism.

My only question is… When does Mark Steyn get his own FOX News show?

Based on the polling data of Luntz and others, count on a bill in 2010 or 2011 that pushes voter rights for “undocumented citizens.”

When Democrats realize Obama faces a serious re-election challenge in 2012, they’ll do whatever they can to bolster their ranks including promises of citizenship for Democrat votes.

I hope I’m wrong but I’ve gotten to the point where I won’t put anything past the Democrats.

They’ll sell out America and even their own base if they think it will keep them in power.

How’s that “historic” healthcare legislation working out for you?

“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 That’s the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President.”

Gateway Pundit points out that at the end of George W. Bush’s second term, his disapproval rating was 43%.

Obama’s is currently 46%. Ouch.

Not good.

“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19.

Today is the second straight day that Obama’s Approval Index rating has fallen to a new low. Prior to the past two days, the Approval Index had never fallen below -15 during Obama’s time in office.”