After the 2000 presidential race, an odd thing happened in Florida. A little-known Northeastern university decided to try its hand at polling political races. Its first big national target was an unlikely one — Florida. Once, when publicly asked about a Quinnipiac poll of Florida, then-Gov. Jeb Bush asked, "What's a Quinnipiac?"

The two latest surveys in Florida, conducted at virtually the same time for the Southern Political Report — one by Mason-Dixon Polling an ...

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