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Poll Finds Brown With Big Edge In Gubernatorial Re-Election Campaign; Voters Favor Water Bond

By Associated Press

Published September 24, 2014 at 9:33 AM PDT

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Gov. Jerry Brown, flanked by Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway, R-Tulare, left, and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, right, holds up the measure he signed to place a $7.5 billion water plan on the November ballot, in Sacramento, Aug. 13, 2014.

Gov. Jerry Brown is maintaining a big lead over Republican challenger Neel Kashkari in this year's governor's race.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari speaks to the media at the Los Angeles Convention Center, June 11, 2014.

A Public Policy Institute of California survey released Tuesday found the Democratic governor with a 54 percent to 33 percent edge over Kashkari, a former U.S. Treasury official and Goldman Sachs banker.

Brown has majority support from women and Latinos.

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The institute also asked about several ballot propositions. It found likely voters supporting Proposition 1, the $7.5 billion water measure, by a 2-to-1 margin.

Proposition 45, which would allow the state insurance commissioner to review rate changes, had support of just 48 percent of those surveyed.

The survey of 916 likely voters was conducted by telephone from Sept. 8-15 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.

Poll Finds Brown With Big Edge In Gubernatorial Re-Election Campaign; Voters Favor Water Bond

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