Now that Gavin Newsom has dropped from the 2010 California Governor race, Democrat Jerry Brown has become the prohibitive favorite with a 44-percent favorable rating.
Yet, an LA Times/USC survey says 65% California Democrats say they want to see other candidates besides Attorney General Jerry Brown run for their party’s gubernatorial nomination next year.
Calling Joan Buchanan!
Meanwhile, Republican Meg Whitman has opened an early lead over her Republican challengers, Steve Poizner and Tom Campbell. None of the Republicans was seen favorably by more than 17 percent of voters.
According to the Reuters report,
Nearly 80 percent of the 1,500 registered voters surveyed see the state on the wrong track — even more than in 2003, when Schwarzenegger ousted then-incumbent Democratic Governor Gray Davis from office in a recall election.
A majority believe the state is worse off than the country as a whole and that California faces long-term decline that will drag on even after the national economy recovers.
Nearly half of those polled, and 53 percent of independents, doubted any of the current gubernatorial candidates can bring real change to the state.
