Rasmussen Poll: Brown Still Leading Whitman After ‘Whore’ Controversy

California gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown (D) and Meg Whitman (R)
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The new Rasmussen poll of the California gubernatorial race — the first poll released since the report of a recording of somebody on Democrat Jerry Brown’s campaign calling Republican Meg Whitman a “whore” — shows Brown continuing to lead Whitman despite the controversy.

The numbers: Brown 50%, Whitman 44%. likely voters has a ±4% margin of error. In the previous Rasmussen poll from two weeks ago, Brown led by a nearly-identical margin of 49%-44%.

The “whore” controversy has dominated coverage of the race for the last week with Brown coming under fire from the Whitman campaign and much of the media. (Brown himself did not appear to have been the person who used the word on the weeks-old call, but he did not immediately differ with it on the audio.) However, this poll shows that it doesn’t seem to have affected the race in any material way, and his momentum has held up.

The TPM Poll Average gives Brown a lead of 47.1%-43.9%.

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