How close are the California races for Senate, governor?

In the race for governor, according to ABC7, Democratic candidate Jerry Brown leads by seven points. Their news poll conducted by SurveyUSA revealed that Brown holds 47% of voter support, while Meg Whitman has 40%.

Five percent of voters still remain undecided.

The California Senate race remains even tighter. ABC7 describes it as a "dead heat."

Democrat Babara Boxer has 46% of voter support, while Republican Carly Fiorina has 44%. Four percent of voters remain undecided.

Due to margins of error in polling, the Senate race remains too close to call. Vanity Fair breaks down the two female Senate candidates in a Midterm Report Card.

If you're registered in California, have you decided on who you are voting for and why? Tell us in the comments below.

-- Lori Kozlowski
Twitter.com/lorikozlowski

Photo: California gubernatorial candidates Democrat Jerry Brown, right, and Republican Meg Whitman debate at Dominican University of California in San Rafael on Oct. 12. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli / EPA

Comments

[SC Guy]

I sure hope and pray that Barbara Boxer is voted out of office. She's just no good.

[Dorothy]

Carly's qualifications for CEO of HP? Secretary. Wow. How do you suppose that happened? Her qualifications for senator? Again zero. How could she pull this one off? Not the same way she did at HP I'm sure. They fired her by the way.

[Ed]

Jerry Brown? If the answer to the question is Jerry Brown... what is the question! God forbid California voters are that sold out to the democrat’s promises of even more free money. The state is broke; and it was Jerry and his over-paid friends that have caused the problems. Unfortunately Meg Whitman might not be much better at fixing a problem only Bankruptcy will cure; California simply needs to file BK and start over. There is no fixing stupid when it is this entrenched! Come on California; How stupid can we be? It's time we all "Moon" Jerry Brown... not elect the idiot again. We need to throw all the bums out of office!

[Arthur Rochester]

Barbara Boxer is a tireless and tough fighter for jobs and the environment in California. She knows the DC ropes and how to get things done. She is well liked by the other officials in Washington who are working for We the People. She has the qualities of a great civil servant.

Carley Fiorina is good for jobs, in foreign countries. Nobody at Hewlett-Packard liked her very much. Although she was fired from H-P, she manged to settle for the golden parachute that is paying for her Senate seat.

There is no question. Barbara Boxer definitely has my vote.

[Tony]

Chelene Nightingale because she is pro 2nd

[Arthur]

@SC Guy
What a convincing statement! Not.

Now here me out, even I have my reservations about Barbara Boxer, but I would still have to go with her based on the track record she has for getting money to California. I definitely don't think Fiorina will be able to have as much leverage in a Democratic-controlled senate. Let's stop complaining about whether we like Republicans or Democrats and realize that what's best for California is that we KEEP BOXER and keep as much federal funds flowing into California as possible.

Whitman Vs. Brown?

Brown of course. If anyone seriously thinks that Meg Whitman will do anything as governor, they should look at Schwarzenegger's track record. Completely horrendous. AGAIN, we have a democratic-controlled legislature because whether you like it or not this is a BLUE California. Meg Whitman would be lucky if she got an eighth of what she wants to get done done. Brown on the other hand will bring us back to days of balanced budgets, governor check and balance with the legislature, and a closer position to green energy, high speed rail, aka the future of California.

[Beth Crispin]

My vote is for Brown and Boxer. I like Brown and I know enough about Brown to know he can do the job well even if he is unorthodox. And I do not like the capital gains tax repeal Whitman has proposed nor the way she presents it. In the Senate race my vote is more against Carly. Her ads are completely out of touch reality and my values.

[mmbriggs]

are those of you who support meg whittman familiar with her true record at ebay? or is it that you just don't care that she molded ebay into a predatory giant, that has squashed all competition in its orb and treated both sellers and buyers to a business model, that pruporsely offered them phony form email customer service, with no real phone support for years, accepted compalaints wihout fact checking and penalized buyers and sellers without cause, locked down money accounts in a way that a bank would be prosecuted for, and that in the end, after showing total disregard for buyers and sellers on ebay who constituted her customer base, saw the price of her stock fall to less than half its value---and there where it remains five years later--but fools the unaware that she did a stellar job in creating jobs and buidling ebay

if you want a governor who will treat you like she treated her customers at ebay, and apparently her own houseskeeper, then whittman is the governor for you, but watch out whne she does to you what she did to customers at ebay!

[Bob Mulholland]

The voters of Ca will not elect Fiorina for what she did to 33,000 Americans- sent them to the unemployment and food stamp lines, then sent the jobs to foreigners overseas, bragged about it, then bought 5 jets for her personal use. There's a reason that Fiorina has been unable to find a job in 5 years, after being fired in 2005 by the H-P Board of Directors.

[Barry Hussein]

There is no way I would or could vote for sellout Boxer. She has hers and now wants to open the flood gates to illegal aliens en mass. She has done nothing to protect California from the onslaught of uneducated third worlders and foreign gang scum that are contaminating the state of California. I can't wait to watch her lose.

As for Brown, had he responded to Gloria Allrag's disgusting press antics with Whitmen's former maid by calling her out on her repulsive behavior, he would have received my vote. Instead he revealed himself as a spineless weasel unable to call out hypocrisy staring him in the face. I doubt he would show any more backbone dealing public sector unions and a mentally challenged California legislature lead by the brain dead Darryl Steinberg. The politics of hopelessness.

[Stuart Howard]

It's sad and disturbing that these races are so close. Brown and Boxer are clearly superior choices. Their opponents can boast no experience that is relevant to the offices they seek. Too many of my fellow citizens seem to have fallen into the common error of believing that a business background qualifies one for a government position. In fact, democratic government is quite unlike a traditional profit-driven business. The latter exists solely to provide profit for its shareholders; while government more closely resembles a not-for-profit charity, which exists to provide services for people. Some claim that the Shareholders of corporations are analogous to the People in government. Not true! Shareholders more closely resemble special interest groups and large campaign donors, who unduly influence the system for their own benefit. The People in government are in fact analogous to the Workers in business; and like the Workers, the People often emerge as the losers in the social equation. I fervently hope that Californians wake up and realize that our state cannot be run as a business if the people are to thrive. We've tried that approach under Schwarzenegger. The results are plain to see.

[Jason C. Galvez]

Go Jerry! Go Barbara! Go California! Get out and vote!

[Jason C. Galvez]

We need to get out and vote. Talk is cheap. Pushing the ballot is not. The radical right wing want see that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

[Jason C. Galvez]

Do we really want to live in a country where right wing candidates can have reporters arrested at their whim? This sounds a lot like 1930's and 1940's Germany.

[Brett.]

While I am not overly enthusiastic about any of my choices, new must be better than old. I am willing to take a risk as nothing is working for California. I am a registered Democrat, but I am voting for Whitman and Fiorina. With some reservations, of course.

[Eric]

Boxer is known in D.C. and has been around, i agree that she has fought for CA for years. Brown has credentials that whitman just doesn't- I agree that it is going to take someone who understand CA politics to get them to work.
Also, overturn prop 13.

[Deborah]

I voted for Meg Whitman. My thinking was that at the most fundamental level the job of Governor is to veto bad bills. I am confident Meg will do this. Jerry could, it just depends which Jerry Brown wakes up that morning. Sad to say, I have more hope - though not a lot - if Meg wins.