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Toplines - 2010 California Governor - November 17, 2009

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California State Survey of 500 Likely Voters
Conducted November 17, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports

1* How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as President… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?

40% Strongly approve
15% Somewhat approve
9% Somewhat disapprove
34% Strongly disapprove
2% Not sure

2* How would you rate the job Arnold Schwarzenegger has been doing as Governor… do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he’s been doing?

6% Strongly approve
23% Somewhat approve
39% Somewhat disapprove
30% Strongly disapprove
2% Not sure

3* 2010 California Governor Race

Meg Whitman (R)

41%

Jerry Brown (D)

41%

Some other candidate

3%

Not sure

14%

Steve Poizner (R)

32%

Jerry Brown (D)

43%

Some other candidate

7%

Not sure

18%

Tom Campbell (R)

33%

Jerry Brown (D)

42%

Some other candidate

6%

Not sure

19%

4* I’m going to read you a short list of people in the News. For each, please let me know if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression.

Candidate for the CA Governor Race

Very Favorable

Somewhat Favorable

Somewhat Unfavorable

Very Unfavorable

Not sure

Whitman

16%

31%

17%

10%

26%

Brown

24%

24%

11%

30%

11%

Poizner

7%

29%

20%

6%

38%

Campbell

13%

27%

13%

7%

39%

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence