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MIAMI, June 13 (UPI) -- A new poll shows Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, the president's younger brother, maintaining a comfortable lead over his two potential Democratic foes in Florida's gubernatorial election in November.
In polling for the Democratic primary Sept. 10, Tampa attorney Bill McBride made up some ground on former Attorney General Janet Reno. Bush is unopposed in the primary.
Bush leads Reno 57 percent to 35 percent and McBride 55 percent to 29 percent, the poll showed. It was conducted June 7-11 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research for a dozen Florida newspapers and television stations.
For the primary, Reno got 53 percent of the vote to 25 percent for McBride and 3 percent for a third candidate, State Sen. Daryl Jones. Nineteen percent were undecided.
Although Reno held a 28 percent lead over McBride, he almost doubled the 13 percent figure he showed in a Mason-Dixon poll in January.
"The big question now is whether McBride can make a surge in the primary and overtake Reno," said Mason-Dixon analyst Brad Coker. "If he beats Reno in the primary and gets a boost out of that, he could turn into a formidable challenger."
Bush has already spent $2 million on television commercials and he plans to keep pushing his campaign for re-election despite the favorable poll results.
"I'm a relatively young 49 years old, but in political years -- like dog years -- I'm about 800 years old," he said. "I've been involved in enough races supporting my father, my brother or myself, or people I admire, to know that no lead is secure and you have to run really hard. And I intend to do that."
Reno would not comment on McBride, but said she thought Bush's numbers should have been better in view of all the money he spent.
"He doesn't seem like he's gotten a lot for the $2 million he's spent," Reno said.
McBride told the Orlando Sentinel he was pleased by the results.
"I was real worried whether we are catching on at all. We're obviously catching on," he said.
The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 4 points.
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