Brown leads Whitman 49%-44% in poll (Boxer leads Fiorina 51%-43%)

[pinto]

Brown leads Whitman 49%-44% in poll

Boxer leads Fiorina 51%-43% in Senate race, survey finds. Both Republicans are hampered by voters' negative impressions of them, poll says.

By Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times
September 25, 2010|4:28 p.m.

Democrat Jerry Brown has moved into a narrow lead over Republican Meg Whitman in their fractious contest for governor, while his party colleague Barbara Boxer has opened a wider margin over GOP nominee Carly Fiorina in the race for U.S. Senate, a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll has found.

The Democratic candidates were benefiting from their party's dominance in California and the continued popularity here of President Obama, who has retained most of his strength in the state even as he has weakened in other parts of the country. Support for Obama may play a key role in the Senate contest, one of a handful nationally that could determine which party wins control of the chamber.

At the same time, the survey showed, Republicans Whitman and Fiorina have yet to convince crucial groups of voters that their businesswoman backgrounds will translate into government success.

Brown, the former governor and current attorney general, held a 49%-44% advantage among likely voters over Whitman, the billionaire former chief executive at EBay.

Boxer, a three-term incumbent, led Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett-Packard, by 51%-43% among likely voters in the survey, a joint effort by The Times and the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

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Polls, polls, polls, I know. Wanted to add this to the mix though. ~ pinto

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. We just look stupid in California

Were not.

[pinto]

2. LOL.

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:

[yurbud]

10. there's still time to screw up like we did with the recall.

[applegrove]

3. All good news. Woohoo!

:woohoo:

[Iwillnevergiveup]

4. Well, there must be other people like me

who hit the MUTE button when yet another Nugmeg commercial airs. Number 1, hope both she and Carly lose big, and Number 2, I hope they never run for anything in this state again.

K&R

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. YES!

I hope those two spend the rest of their fortunes on these misguided vanity campaigns!

[Bitwit1234]

6. The thing is -- the more reasonable people see of these

republicans, the more they hear them talk, the more they know they are a bunch of crap. Then add to the fact of the mess Bush made and they are thinking of a much better candidate Brown. Where the republicans are leading, it is probably a republican state or area and they doesn't seem to be much a person can do about it. What I mean is the districts like Texass were redrawn to reflect republican votes so unless you get a lot of republicans to turn away from the rabble that is running you will loose. But it seems republicans are not reasonable, they would vote for a republicans if he was a snake or a crazy. We see this in the ones in congress.

[K8-EEE]

7. Money can't buy you love Meg!

GOOOOO JERRY! GO BARBARA! Looking forward to the post-Arnie era....

[Jefferson23]

8. It feels great to hear good news! n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

9. The Meg/Carly campaigns have only one idea

which is to engage in a huge display of conspicuous consumption during a recession. Buy more media, fly more places!

[pinto]

11. Yeah, I think both have really misjudged the California electorate.

I'm phone banking tomorrow for a local Dem CA Assembly candidate, a repeat couple of hours. And we're trying hard to get the 2/3 threshold to pass a budget rescinded. Three votes have held hostage a budget for the nation's largest economic state. Embarassing and bizarre.

But to your point - I think both are going down. Meg narrowly and Carly decisively.

[era veteran]

12. I hope good people are making the money these vain

assholes are spending.

[katty]

13. Meg W is a fool, she keeps mentioning Texas to us Californians

we just got done with Bush and his TX chainsaw crew, BP oil has ruined the Gulf of Mexico, lives and livlihoods -- just keep talkin' Meg about how great Texas is for business, business, business - while Brown is talking up new green jobs and REALLY pushing forward in renewable energy. It was quite fun to watch Brown go after her last night.