Governor 2010

California
A Rasmussen Reports (IVR) poll; conducted 3/15; surveyed 500 LVs; margin of error +/- 4.4% (release, 3/17). Tested: AG/ex-Gov. Jerry Brown (D), Insurance Commis. Steve Poizner (R) and ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman (R).

General Election Matchups

-           Now 2/15 1/19 11/17 9/24
J. Brown    42% 46%  45%  43%   45%
S. Poizner  27  34   35   32    32
Other       13   7    9    7     5
Undec       18  13   11   18    18

-           Now 2/15 1/19 11/17 9/24 1/09
J. Brown    40% 43%  43%  41%   44%  40%
M. Whitman  40  43   39   41    35%  38
Other        6   6    7    3     3    5
Undec       14   8   11   14    18   17

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-           Now     2/15    1/19    11/17   9/24    1/09
M. Whitman  51%/34% 56%/28% 48%/30% 47%/27% 45%/28% 43%/22%
J. Brown    46 /44  53 /41  49 /40  48 /41  53 /37  46 /38
S. Poizner  29 /47  38 /37  40 /31  36 /26  36 /32   n/a

A Field Poll; conducted 3/9-15; surveyed 748 LVs; margin of error +/- 3.6%. Oversample of 353 GOP primary LVs; margin of error +/- 5.2% (release, 3/17). Party ID breakdown of main sample: 45%D, 35%R, 20%I. Tested: Brown, Poizner and Whitman.

Primary Election Matchup (GOPers)

-           Now 1/17
M. Whitman  63% 45%
S. Poizner  14  17
Undec       23  38

General Election Matchups

-           Now 1/17 10/5(RVs)
J. Brown    49% 48%  50%
S. Poizner  32  31   25
Undec       19  21   25

-           All Dem GOP Ind Men Wom 1/17 10/5(RVs)
M. Whitman  46% 20% 77% 50% 47% 45% 36%  29%
J. Brown    43  69  13  36  43  43  46   50
Undec       11  11  10  14  10  12  18   21

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-           All     Dem     GOP     Ind     1/17    10/5(RVs)
J. Brown    41%/37% 60%/20% 19%/60% 38%/34% 44%/32% 44%/29%
M. Whitman  40 /27  24 /36  56 /16  46 /22  25 /20  18 /14
S. Poizner  16 /32  12 /30  20 /34  17 /32  16 /20  22 /17