According to a Quinnipiac University pollreleased today, some Florida voters are warming up a bit toGov. Rick Scott.

While his numbers continue to be dismal—with voters disapproving50 to 37 percent of the job he's doing—that is an improvement fromthe 52 to 35 percent overall disapproval rating of August 5 and the57 to 29 percent disapproval rating of May 25.

Asked if they like the governor as a person, no matter how theyfeel about his policies, voters are now split 37 to 37 percent,compared to 45 to 34 percent in Quinnipiac's August 5 survey. Womenare divided at 36 to 36 percent on liking Scott, compared to a 47to 30 percent dislike in the August survey. Men are at 39 to 38percent, virtually unchanged from 39 to 42 percent lastmonth.

On job approval, Republicans give Scott a 70 to 18 percentthumbs up, compared to 61 to 23 percent in August. Women disapprove55 to 31 percent, compared to 58 to 30 percent last month. Notsurprisingly, Democrats disapprove 82 to 8 percent compared to 78to 14 last month. Independent voters disapprove 54 to 34 percentcompared to 50 to 33 in August.

Also, Florida voters now say 48 to 41 percent that Scott'sbudget is unfair to people like them, a slight improvement fromAugust's 51 to 33 percent and May's 54 to 29 percent.

While voters split down the middle on Scott's personal rating,they say they do not like his policies by 53 to 35 percent. By 53to 36 percent they say they do not approve of his handling of thestate budget.

Florida voters support 71 to 27 percent a law requiring welfarerecipients to pass drug tests. There are substantial partisandisagreements on this, but no gender gap. Republicans back the law90 to 8 percent; independent voters approve 75 to 24 percent.Democrats split 49 to 50 percent.

Despite these recent ratings improvements, Scott continues to bethe least-popular state leader in the Quinnipiac surveys of thepast two months.

Republican U.S.Sen. Marco Rubio does better than the governor among Floridavoters. Rubio, in his first term in Washington, has a 49 to 31percent approval rating, with positive scores of 81 to 10 percentamong Republicans and 52 to 30 percent among independent voters.Democrats disapprove 52 to 19 percent. Rubio is experiencing agender gap. He garners a 54 to 30 percent approval rating amongmen, but a 44 to 31 percent rating with women.

The telephone poll of 1,007 registered voters was conducted befrom September 14 to 19. It has a margin of +/- 3.1 percentagepoints.