Question: If the 2006 election for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat were held today, for whom would you vote if the candidates were Bill Nelson, the Democrat, and Katherine Harris, the Republican?

Bill Nelson 57%
Katherine Harris 29%
Undecided 14%

GOP primary:
Question: If the 2006 Republican primary election for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat were held today, which one of the following candidates would get your vote: (ORDER ROTATED)

Katherine Harris 36%
Will McBride 11%
LeRoy Collins, Jr. 8%
Peter Monroe 2%
Undecided (NOT READ) 43%

Poll Demographics
Men 307 (49%)
Women 318 (51%)

White 467 (75%)
Black 74 (12%)
Hispanic 77 (12%)
Other 7 (1%)

Dem 269 (43%)
Rep 252 (40%)
Ind 104 (17%)

About this Poll
The Mason-Dixon Florida Poll was conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc. of Washington, D.C. from July 19 through July 21, 2006. A total of 625 registered voters were interviewed statewide by telephone. All stated they vote regularly in state elections.

Those interviewed were selected by the random variation of the last four digits of telephone numbers. A cross-section of exchanges was utilized and quotas were assigned to reflect voter turn-out by county.

The margin for error, according to standards customarily used by statisticians, is no more than plus or minus 4 percentage points. This means that there is a 95 percent probability that the "true" figure would fall within that range if all voters were surveyed. The margin for error is higher for any subgroup, such as a regional or party grouping.