Brown & Boxer ahead in new poll!

[Ernesto]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39222.html

[Auggie]

1. UPDATE: Whitman and Brown now in virtual tie (Field Poll)

San Francisco Chronicle / July 7th, 2010

California's race for governor is a dead heat, as Republican Meg Whitman's massive advertising blitz coupled with Democrat Jerry Brown's lo-fi campaign have raised doubts about Brown and cut his lead among Latino voters and other key Democratic constituencies, a Field Poll released today shows.

Brown leads Whitman 44 to 43 percent in the poll, with 13 percent undecided, according to Field's survey of 1,005 likely voters. The poll, conducted June 22 to July 5, has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.

But billionaire Whitman's relentless advertising campaign has helped sour voters' views of Brown, with 40 percent holding an unfavorable opinion of him - up from 25 percent in March 2009. Still, 42 percent view him favorably.

Voters feel similarly mixed about Whitman, with 40 percent viewing her favorably. But 42 percent view her unfavorably, up from 27 percent in March 2010, largely because of her bruising GOP primary against Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and attacks on her from union-backed independent expenditure groups.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/06/MNIB1EA81L.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1#ixzz0t0GMDoUk