Republican Rep. Connie Mack IV’s entry (or re-entry?) into the Florida Senate race briefly shook things up in the polling world: With the entry of a well-known Republican into the field of nobodies, three polls suddenly showed the previously-uninteresting race looking like a tossup (although only one was from a well-regarded public pollster, Quinnipiac, who gave Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson a 42-40 lead; the others were fromRasmussen and a Republican internal pollster). Public Policy Polling’s newest look at the race, though, finds little has changed, not just from their last few looks at the race but also the times from spring when they polled Mack back during the first time he was acting like a candidate. (We’re making two sets of trendlines available because PPP stopping polling Mack over the summer when he declined the first time.)

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