In California, race for governor tightens and Sen. Feinstein holds lead for re-election
LOS ANGELES - Californians overwhelmingly support Sen. Dianne Feinstein's re-election bid, and she is far better known than her top rival, according to a new University of Southern California Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. Voters are more divided in the governor's race, creating a closer contest between Democrats Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villaraigosa.
Newsom leads Villaraigosa by more than 10 percentage points in an election that is shaping up to be competitive, the USC/Times poll found. Newsom, the state's lieutenant governor, has dominated early polls and fundraising.
"It has all the potential to be a real race," said Bob Shrum, the director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at USC. "Maybe in California we're going to
