Poll Shows Whitman Up in Calif. GOP Governor Race

November 5, 2009 7:18 PM | | Comments (0)

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is outpacing the other GOP candidates for the nod to run for California governor, says a new poll conducted Oct. 26-28.

According to the poll by Capitol Weekly/Probolsky Research Whitman leads former Rep. Tom Campbell 34.3 percent to 12.5 percent, with Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner a distant third at 5.5 percent.

About 7 percent of the 750 respondents said they preferred someone else and 35 percent were undecided.

On the Democratic side, the poll tested only Attorney General Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who has dropped out. Brown was ahead, as he was in other polls, 43 percent to 18 percent.

The poll asked Republican voters whether they were bothered by the fact that Whitman has not voted in more than half of the federal, state and local elections since she registered in 2002. Thirty-three percent said it made no difference to them, nearly 54 percent said it made them somewhat or much less likely to vote for her, and nearly 9 percent seemed to find some virtue in her voting record, saying they were somewhat or more likely to back her.

Nearly half of Republicans said that disclosures that Poizner gave a total of $20,000 to Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race made it much less likely they would vote for him.

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Categories: Governor, Probolsky Research

Tags: Brown, California, Campbell, Poizner, Whitman

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