The former governor, who bolted the Republican Party and ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate as an independent in 2010, enjoys a 42 percent favorable rating — besting both U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson.
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Just eight months after losing to Rubio, Crist now holds a 42-33 favorable/unfavorable rating compared with Rubio’s tighter 38-34 ranking.
Nelson, who is up for re-election in 2012, has a 32-27 favorable/unfavorable score. Surprisingly, 41 percent of respondents expressed no opinion or were “not aware” of him, an astonishingly high figure for a two-term senator and former congressman who has held elective office for four decades.
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