Meg Whitman's deep pockets put her ahead of Jerry Brown
Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2010

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Republican Meg Whitman's unprecedented spending spree in the race for governor has rocketed her into a narrow lead against Democrat Jerry Brown, while incumbent U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) is holding her own as a trio of little-known GOP candidates vies to challenge her, a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll has found.

Whitman, who gave her campaign a record-breaking $39 million to finance a blistering pace of recent television advertising, carried 44% of voters to Brown's 41%. The campaign by Brown, the former governor and current attorney general, has been the antithesis of Whitman's, operating under the radar except for a brief burst of publicity in early March when he announced his intention to run.

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The poll was conducted for The Times and the USC college by two polling agencies, the Democratic firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and the Republican firm American Viewpoint. The margin of error for the survey, which included 1,515 registered voters, was plus or minus 2.6 points for the overall sample and slightly larger for smaller breakdowns. Questioning took place March 23 through 30.

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