TALLAHASSEE -- Hit by a bad economy and election-year politics, Gov. Charlie Crist's popularity is starting to fade a bit, according to a new poll.
About 57 percent of Floridians rate Crist's job performance as ''excellent'' or ''good,'' the poll from Mason-Dixon Polling & Research says. About 41 percent say he's doing a fair to poor job. That's a 23 percent increase since June 2007, when his job-approval rating was sky-high at 70 percent. Crit's new numbers might have been slightly lower, but he's likely enjoying a bounce from his week of statewide media exposure handling Tropical Storm Fay from the Keys to the Space Coast to the state capital.
The poll also shows Floridians are likely to approve a constitutional gay-marriage ban, favor offshore oil-drilling by big margins and probably won't support a so-called ''tax swap'' plan that a judge struck from the Nov. 4 ballot anyway.
Charlie Crist's 'shine' fades in poll
MiamiHerald.com, FL
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