Whitman again leads big in governor’s race

(From the AP) A new poll shows that former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman has stopped her plunge in recent polls to again take a large lead in the Republican race for California governor, and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina has become the clear front-runner in the race to take on Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat.

The Los Angeles Times/USC poll released Saturday shows Whitman leading state insurance commissioner Steve Poizner by 24 points, and Fiorina leading former congressman Tom Campbell by 15 points less than two weeks before the June 8 primary.

The results differ sharply from a the Public Policy Institute of California poll released just 10 days ago showing Whitman with a nine-point lead and the Senate race as a statistical dead heat.