Polls: Ricardo Lara Leads By 6% in Senate Race, Alan Lowenthal Leads by 22% in Congressional Race

Assemblymember Ricardo Lara and Senator Alan Lowenthal
 
5:00am | Assemblymember Ricardo Lara leads democratic rival Assemblymember Bonnie Lowenthal by 6 points in a race for the new 33rd Senate District according to new poll conducted for the California Majority Report by Coral Gables, Florida-based pollsters Bendixen & Amandi.

Democratic Senator Alan Lowenthal released a poll to the Press Telegram yesterday showing a commanding lead of “40 percent of likely voters in a three-way race [in California’s new 47th Congressional District] with Republicans Gary DeLong and Steve Kuykendall, who received 14 percent and 18 percent, respectively.” Senator Lowenthal’s poll was conducted by Culver City-based Goodwin Simon Strategic Research.

According to The California Majority Report story on the senate race, “Despite initial name ID below 30 percent, Lara begins the race with a lead, both on the cold sample (Lara 29%, Lowenthal 23%, Flores-Gibson 18%, with 30% Undecided) and after positive and negative messages are tested (Lara 31%,Lowenthal 26%, Flores-Gibson 23%, with 20% Undecided).”

According to the Press Telegram on the congressional race, “A possible Democratic challenger, former Orange County state Sen. Joe Dunn, trailed Lowenthal by 21 percent head- to-head. Matched up against the GOP candidates in the poll, Dunn received 33 percent to Kuykendall’s 19 percent and DeLong’s 14 percent.”