After a poll released by St. Pete Polls Tuesday had U.S. Representative Charlie Crist (D-FL-13) leading Governor DeSantis, a different poll released by the Florida Chamber of Commerce on Friday showed the exact opposite.
Rather than being behind Crist, the Chamber poll shows DeSantis ahead 51% to 43%, with an approval rating of 54% among all poll participants as opposed to 43.7% in the St. Pete Poll.
The poll also showed DeSantis’ lead over Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, increased from 3.3% in the St. Pete Poll to 9% in the Chamber poll.
According to the Florida Chamber, the poll was “conducted on July 26 through August 4, 2021 by Cherry Communications during live telephone interviews of likely voters, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. The sample size included 236 Democrats, 248 Republicans and 126 others for a total of 610 respondents statewide.”
In addition, the press release inidcates DeSantis’ approval rating is largely due to the support of 87% of Republicans and 52% of Non-Party Affiliates (NPA’s) who were surveyed. However, in the St. Pete Poll, only 73% of Republicans and 39.9% of NPA’s supported DeSantis.
In a statement made by Chamber President and CEO Mark Wilson, regarding the poll, he said, “Thanks to the leadership and swift action taken by Governor DeSantis and the Florida Legislature, COVID-19 liability protections were signed into law, allowing Florida’s economy to remain open and jump to the 15th largest economy in the world – and voters clearly appreciate a Governor who does the right things.”
The discrepancy between the two polls is not new for DeSantis. In 2018, St Pete Polls released multiple surveys where they claimed voters favored then-Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum over DeSantis by five percentage points. DeSantis ended up beating Gillum 49.6% to 49.2%.
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Casey Owens is a contributing writer for The Florida Capital Star. Follow him on Twitter at @cowensreports. Email tips to caseyowensreports@gmail.com.
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Whether you survive or not, if you get a severe case, you take up an emergency bed and too many cause hospitals to be overrun and other paitents or would be patients to suffer the lost of occupancy / timely treatment. Survival of also isn’t a statement towards long term health issues from it. And the longer you let it spread uncontrollably, well at some point someone will say the USA variants because the diseasecan mutate further with so many wonderful hosts just freedoming it around. Vote with your gut, .. . that’s another place the germs churn. Anyway, do onto others . . except coughing on them karen.
Go to the CDC and Government sites and you will see your child is 3 times more likely to be murdered then die from covid. They are 10 times more likely to drown. Roughly the same number of children died from flu in 2018 that have died from covid. Not hard to think for yourself and get the facts. Not only do mask mandates make no difference in statistics regarding covid but they do cause damage.
Does anyone remember what verse in the bible where God punished his faithful followers with disease or plague? I think I remember something happened in Egypt. God said “Let my people go.” Then God punished his followers with plague and disease. Why are people looking at this so backwards? God punished the faithful with plagues diseases and disasters. Be happy God is rewarding you all.
Florida does not want a liberal over emotional democrat wimp as governor. Look how theyve destroyed the rest of the country where they are in charge! DeSantis is going to be the next president!
this site is a joke. looks like 1998 technology and is not actual news.
Aside from kids dying or having long term health issues due to this virus, who wants to take a chance on their kid getting sick period. @Hope’s comment below. You are projecting from the party you associate yourself with. Everything you say applies to you and your party.
August 8, 2021 at 9:46 am
Big corporations, Big Tech, and media have a strong dependence on the Chinese market and therefore will contribute heavily and participate in the Democratic Party’$ corruption, treason, and crimes against humanity to ensure their bottom line.
They will be held accountable as co-conspirators and will pay dearly. Jail terms and fines for treason, genocide, bioterrorism, and corruption will carry a heavy price for them. Our Heavenly Father has this and humanity will trump their corruption. Pray…
Ron DeSantis Best Governor in Florida and more importantly our Heavenly Father reigns over the Universe.
Governor DeSantis is guilty of negligent homicide. His stubborn insolence and disdain for the scientists, doctors, first responders, teachers and students is criminal. Masks are a temporary discomfort as we battle the Delta variant, and they are the only sure way to protect our children until we have a vaccine that is appropriate for their age. Masks are certainly more comfortable than ventilators, and less debilitating than death! Unfortunately because of the Governor, pediatric wards are filling up and families will be mourning their children. Totally unnecessary. Shameful! Those of you praising DeSantis here have not been paying attention!
@ Kalena
You have provided no thoughtful insights or meaningful conversation… you have only displayed ignorance that is beyond belief. Perhaps you should go sign up at the Lincoln Center at their new mental health program. They are looking for customers just like you. Have a blessed day!
deathsantis is a terrible governor he has blood on his hands people are dying left to right in this XXXX up state he runs he needs to do his got dam job stop worryinf about the border when dumb ass florida doesnt have border
@ Hope
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@ Edward
First paragraph, hilarious
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Can you even imagine what the poll results would be if it was conducted in the Tallahassee area?
Polls results from only regional areas are meaningless. The only ones even partially believable must be conducted among a broadly geographic population of people to be worthwhile.
Big corporations, Big Tech, and media have a strong dependence on the Chinese market and therefore will contribute heavily and participate in the Democratic Party’$ corruption, treason, and crimes against humanity to ensure their bottom line.
They will be held accountable as co-conspirators and will pay dearly. Jail terms and fines for treason, genocide, bioterrorism, and corruption will carry a heavy price for them. Our Heavenly Father has this and humanity will trump their corruption. Pray…
Ron DeSantis Best Governor in Florida and more importantly our Heavenly Father reigns over the Universe.
As I noted before… The only polls that are reliable are the poles in stripclubs… and even those depend on who installed them.
Most of these partisan push-polls are designed to manipulate public option, not gauge it. It’s also a way to panic candidates and push them to spend their campaign dollars on advertising… which is why most polls are connected to a media platform in some way, shape, or form.
Then there are polls conducted by agenda-driven organizations. These polls are usually designed to send a message to the incumbent and his/her challenger. The CoC is likely sending the message to back off the criticism of illegal aliens and the China Bio-Weapon Scamdemic. The CoC supports illegal alien slave labor and government handouts. After all… so long as you’ll sleep 15 to a singlewide – and taxpayers cover your housing, healthcare, and food expenses – then we corporations can maintain our cheap slave labor operations and maximize profits. Illegal aliens are the new slaves of the DemoKKKrat Party and their corporate owners.
Think for yourselves… before it’s too late to save this Great Republic.
Why would you even WANT to see a poll this far from election day? The early democrat supported polls are only meant to form opinions and gain support for the democrat candidates…in other words they’re just political ads disguised as polls. After a few election cycles you learn who puts out the bogus polls. We all should ignore the polls anyway…just vote your gut…regardless.
@ Tony, how do you know those Kids will catch it at School? They could catch any where.
Facts over fear. Covid has a 99.85% survival since “ravaging” the UK (most recent two months). Look up the numbers and don’t be a scared media dependent fear broker. US numbers are following in that trend with a 99%+ survival rate since June 1. Unnecessarily masking kids is child abuse. Thank God for Ron Desantis.
Peter Schorsch runs St. Pete Polls. His wife worked for Charlie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl36L2G-y90
They should take another poll of those same voters after they realize their kids have long term health issues from COVID infection at public schools
I have always known Cherry Communications to be a credible source.