FLORIDA -- U.S. Rep. Connie Mack has an overwhelming lead over the Republican field for Florida's U.S. Senate nomination, while Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson edges him by a nose, 43 – 39 percent, in a November match-up, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted in June 2012.
"At this point, the Republican Senate nomination is Congressman Connie Mack's to lose," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.