Whitman Loses Ground To Brown In Latest Poll
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) - The final Field Poll before the election puts Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman 10 points behind Democrat Jerry Brown.
Other polls have shown pulling away from Whitman, but the Field Poll had the two candidates in a dead heat since the June primary, always within the three point margin of error.
KCBS' Doug Sovern Reports:
Until the poll conducted over the last two weeks, Brown had never been ahead by more than one point.
Now the attorney general has surged to a commanding lead, 49 percent to 39 percent. The margin of error is once again plus or minus three points.
Brown has built big leads among women, Latinos and independent voters, said Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo. Brown is winning 51% of the women's vote to 35% for Whitman.
The controversy over Whitman's illegal immigrant housekeeper may have been the turning point. The poll has Brown well ahead among Latinos, 57 percent to 27 percent.
And decline to state voters prefer Brown 49 percent to 33 percent.
Even worse for Whitman, voters' opinion of her has steadily worsened despite months of televsion ads and her record personal spending on this campaign.
Her unfavorable rating has hit an all-time high of 51 percent. Forty-two percent view her favorably. Voters are evenly split on whether they like Brown.
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