{"id":12113,"date":"2010-07-10T18:28:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-10T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T18:28:33","slug":"field-poll-newsom-leads-maldonado-cooley-narrowly-leads-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/10\/field-poll-newsom-leads-maldonado-cooley-narrowly-leads-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Poll: Newsom Leads Maldonado, Cooley Narrowly Leads Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"

More goodies from the Field Poll, this time on the LG and AG races<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lt Gov:
\n
Newsom<\/b> 43
\n
Maldonado<\/b> 34
\n
Undecided 23<\/p>\n

Attorney General:
\n
Cooley<\/b> 37
\n
Harris<\/b> 34
\n
Undecided 29<\/p>\n

Newsom’s position is strong even though more voters view him unfavorably (41-26). Maldonado is less well-known – 67% have an opinion of Newsom, but only 37% have an opinion on Maldonado.<\/p>\n

Overall Newsom has some important early leads. He wins DTS voters 45-21, and has a commanding lead in NorCal, 53-31. In SoCal he polls about even with Maldonado, 37-36. Maldonado is going to need to spend a lot of money to raise his name ID if he’s going to have a chance at winning.<\/p>\n

In the AG race, things are much closer, but Kamala Harris has a strong upside. Harris currently only polls 58% of Democrats, with 28% undecided – this may be residual from the primary, and Harris should be able to get stronger numbers from Democrats as the campaign goes on. Republicans have united behind Cooley, unsurprisingly.<\/p>\n

Harris has a lead among DTS voters, 30-24, though 46% are undecided. They each have about a 10-point lead over the other in their respective regional bases, with Harris leading in NorCal and Cooley leading in SoCal.<\/p>\n

Both Harris and Cooley have low name ID – about 70% of voters don’t have an opinion on either candidate – suggesting that whomever is first to define the other will gain an advantage.<\/p>\n

Overall this suggests that Newsom is well on his way to becoming Lieutenant Governor, and that the AG race will be a closely fought battle. We’ll need to make sure Kamala Harris wins this – the last thing California needs is a right-wing AG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More goodies from the Field Poll, this time on the LG and AG races<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lt Gov:
\n
Newsom<\/b> 43
\n
Maldonado<\/b> 34
\n
Undecided 23<\/p>\n

Attorney General:
\n
Cooley<\/b> 37
\n
Harris<\/b> 34
\n
Undecided 29<\/p>\n

Newsom’s position is strong even though more voters view him unfavorably (41-26). Maldonado is less well-known – 67% have an opinion of Newsom, but only 37% have an opinion on Maldonado.<\/p>\n

Overall Newsom has some important early leads. He wins DTS voters 45-21, and has a commanding lead in NorCal, 53-31. In SoCal he polls about even with Maldonado, 37-36. Maldonado is going to need to spend a lot of money to raise his name ID if he’s going to have a chance at winning.<\/p>\n

In the AG race, things are much closer, but Kamala Harris has a strong upside. Harris currently only polls 58% of Democrats, with 28% undecided – this may be residual from the primary, and Harris should be able to get stronger numbers from Democrats as the campaign goes on. Republicans have united behind Cooley, unsurprisingly.<\/p>\n

Harris has a lead among DTS voters, 30-24, though 46% are undecided. They each have about a 10-point lead over the other in their respective regional bases, with Harris leading in NorCal and Cooley leading in SoCal.<\/p>\n

Both Harris and Cooley have low name ID – about 70% of voters don’t have an opinion on either candidate – suggesting that whomever is first to define the other will gain an advantage.<\/p>\n

Overall this suggests that Newsom is well on his way to becoming Lieutenant Governor, and that the AG race will be a closely fought battle. We’ll need to make sure Kamala Harris wins this – the last thing California needs is a right-wing AG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-39n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}