Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum clings to a shrinking lead in the Florida governor's race, but voters think he was mistaken to challenge President Barack Obama's health care program.
In a poll released Monday by Quinnipiac University, McCollum was favored by 40 percent of the respondents to 36 percent who preferred Democratic Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink if the election were held now. McCollum led Sink 41 percent to 31 percent in Quinnipiac's January survey.
"His threatened lawsuit to void the new federal health care law doesn't sit well with voters," said Peter Brown, assistant polling director for Quinnipiac.
Brown noted that 41 percent of independent voters said that made it less likely they would vote for McCollum than 27 percent who said it made it more likely they'd support the likely Republican nominee.
McCollum is among more than a dozen attorneys general across the country to seek to overturn Obama's overhaul of the health care system.
Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,250 Florida voters April 8-13 on the general election matchup. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
The poll showed McCollum with a commanding lead over state Sen. Paula Dockery among registered Republican voters. Dockery, of Lakeland, was favored by 7 percent of the respondents compared to 56 percent for McCollum in a GOP primary.
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Sink is the lone major Democrat in the contest.
