Poll: Newsom leads lieutenant governor's race

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From today's Matier & Ross column in the San Francisco Chronicle:

He's out of the governor's race, but a new poll puts San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom as the instant front-runner in a three-way Democratic match-up for lieutenant governor.

The poll of 600 likely Democratic voters statewide, conducted last month by San Francisco pollster Ben Tulchin, shows Newsom clocking in with 33 percent of the vote, giving him a big lead over Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, at 17 percent, and state Sen. Dean Florez of Shafter (Kern County), at 15 percent. Both Hahn and Florez are declared candidates for the June primary.

The remaining 35 percent of those surveyed were undecided.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/03/BAGK1BRFEN.DTL