Florida/North Carolina Question Suggestions

Our polls for this weekend will be in Florida and North Carolina.

In Florida our main focus will obviously be next year's race for Governor. What potential match ups should we test, and beyond that race what else should we delve into in Florida?

In North Carolina our main focus will be next year's Senate contest. You can see what candidates we included last month here. Are there any new Republicans we should put into the mix this time? And any other NC poll question ideas you have would be much appreciated as well.

Thanks as always for the good question suggestions!

Comments

[Adam Unger]

For Florida: Do you think the number of days available for Early Voting in Florida should be...

Expanded?
Kept the same?
Reduced?
Unsure

Maybe should provide some context before asking the question, but not sure.

[Andy]

In the 2012 Senate race, would you say you voted:

For Bill Nelson
Against Bill Nelson
For Connie Mack IV
Against Connie Mack IV

[Alexander]

Possible Florida Dems for Governor
--Charlie Crist
--Buddy Dyer
--Alex Sink
--Nan Rich
--Jack Seiler
--Jeremy Ring

North Carolina Republicans for Senate
--Thom Tillis
--Patrick McHenry
--Renee Ellmers
--Virginia Foxx
--Sue Myrick
--James Cain
--Phillip Berger
--Robin Hayes

[Chris S.]

Florida: 2016 presidential election matchups between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, as well as between Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton.

[Scott]

For Florida:

Would Gay marriage pass?

As for Governor's race, please try a GOP primary between:

Scott vs. Pam Bondi (State AG)
Scott vs. Allen West

For the general election:

Scott vs. Debbie Washerman-Shultz

[Derek]

Do 2016 polling for both parties in Florida.

[pbrower2a]

1. Approval/disapproval of President Obama.
2. How people remember voting (note that 7% either voted for someone other than Obama or Romney, but only 42% remember voting for Romney but 50% remember voting for Obama. That is remarkable).
3. Generic ballot for US Congress.
4. How the fiscal cliff went.
5. GUN CONTROL!!!!!
6. National Rifle Association
7. Willing to pay higher taxes to handle mental illness more effectively?

[Thomas]

Charlie Crist vs. Marco Rubio 2016 Senate
Alex Sink vs. Marco Rubio 2016 Senate

[Josh Mizesko]

2016
FL Governor
1.D Primary w/
Alex Sink
Charlie Crist
2. D Primary w/
Alan Grayson
Robert Wexler
General Election
Alex Sink(D) vs. Rick Scott(R)
Charlie Crist(D) vs. Rick Scott(R)
Robert Wexler(D) vs. Rick Scott(R)
Alan Grayson(D) vs. Rick Scott(R)
NC US Senate
GOP Primary
Virginia Foxx(R)
George Holding(R)
Patrick McHenry(R)
Jim Cain(R)
Robin Hayes(R)
Renee Ellmers(R)
General election-
Kay Hagan vs. all of the above

[Mike]

For Florida Governor please use:
any democrats, but I want to see if Crist would run as an indpendent and if it would make an impact.

Also for Florida and North Carolina do a GOP/Democrat presidential primary poll.

Have the GOP include,
Mike Huckabee, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Susana Martinez and Rand Paul.

The democratic poll should include:
Hillary Clinton, Deval Patrick, Mark Dayton, Andrew Cuomo, Joe Biden, Brian Schweitzer, and Elizabeth Warren

[Gregbrown]

NC Voters: Should Ron Riviera be fired by the Carolina Panthers?

[anon]

Obviously, you're testing Christ against Scott. For christ, it might be interesting to see if the Dems want somebody more liberal, and who want someone more moderate/conservative than scott. Meek and West might work well if you're looking for a more specific primary challengers to the frontrunners. Also, Puerto Rican independence?

For NC, voter ID should be a must. A question on 'is there voter fraud' or somesuch. NC polling might actually be interesting for 2016 (whereas FL its pointless), to see if it'll be reliably red and 08 was a one time occurence, or if Clinton can beat, say, Jeb Bush. But i assume you'll have 100 opportunities to poll that.

[Dovie E.]

For North Carolina:

Primary battle Kay Hagan vs. Mike McIntyre

[Jason Fishkin]

North Carolina
- Favorability of Mccrory vs Richard burr. In other words, who is more likely to be defeated in '16?
- Who are the D's that are likely to challenge the governor and Burr.
- Is Hagan susceptible to a primary challenge from the left?

[Samian Quazi]

Here's my suggestions!

Florida:

Would former Gov. Charlie Crist benefit more in a rematch against Sen. Marco Rubio in 2016 or in a gubernatorial race against Gov. Rick Scott next year?

Also, I'd like to see the favorables/unfavorables for Rick Scott and Alex Sink. Since Rick Scott has generally had pretty low ratings, it'd be interesting to see if Florida voters are having "buyer's remorse" and would want a do-over match between Sink and Scott.

North Carolina:

Of course, we know that the day after North Carolina voters approved Amendment One (the state constitutional gay marriage ban), President Obama went on national TV to endorse gay marriage. Subsequently, African-American voters' approval of gay marriage shot up nationwide.

PPP found that 60-65% of African-Americans in NC supported the ban:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76133.html

I'd want to see if African-American voters in NC have changed their minds on gay marriage, or if 60-65% of these voters are still against gay marriage.

[NCNC]

NC-SEN:
Hagan (D) - McCrory (R)

FL-GOV:
Scott (R) - Crist (D)
Scott (R) - Sink (D)
Scott (R) - Betty Castor (D)

[GH]

Pam Bondi vs. Rick Scott (for the GOP primary voters) should yield interesting results.

[Steve]

Ask NC voters how they voted on Amendment 1, and how they would vote today.