CA-GOV POLL: Brown 49 (+8), Whitman 39 (-2).

[jefferson_dem]

Brown leads Whitman by 10 points, Field Poll says
Carla Marinucci,Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Political Writers

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Democrat Jerry Brown has amassed a 10-point lead in the California governor's race over Republican Meg Whitman, whose negative ratings have reached record levels despite her spending $162 million in the largest self-funded campaign in American history, a new Field Poll shows.

With election day on Tuesday, Brown holds a 49 to 39 percent lead over the former eBay CEO in the race, with 5 percent of voters favoring other candidates and 7 percent undecided, the poll showed. The Field poll last month showed the two candidates in a virtual tie.



"I don't think voters have warmed up to Meg Whitman," said Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo.

When Whitman began her first major advertising blitz in March, 40 percent of state voters had a favorable view of her and 27 percent viewed her negatively. Now, after investing $142 million of her own money and raising and spending millions more, her unfavorable ratings have nearly doubled, to 51 percent, the poll found.

"That's not effective advertising," DiCamillo said. "With all that money, she's never been able to increase the number of voters who view her favorably. She didn't make the sale."

Brown, the state attorney general and former two-term governor who also served eight years as Oakland's mayor, holds formidable leads among three voter groups considered crucial to the contest: Among Latinos, he leads Whitman by 30 points, while holding 16-point leads over Whitman among women and independent voters, the poll found.

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Early voters for Brown

Among the 1 in 5 who said they have already cast ballots, 48 percent were for Brown and 41 percent for Whitman, the poll found.

And among those likely to vote in person at their local precincts on Tuesday, Brown held an even larger advantage, 49 to 38 percent, the poll found.

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[vaberella]

1. Wow...just bloody Wow. n/t

[Kind of Blue]

2. KnR! n/t

[saltpoint]

3. Should Meg go on to lose this gubernatorial contest,

I think she should pick her spirits up by going out shopping.

[WI_DEM]

4. If nothing else Dems will be able to say they won the governorship of the largest state

in the country.