On the issue of crime, which Lungren as the incumbent Republican attorney general should own, he was only eking out an edge. On a trio of personal issues, Davis led across the board. Among likely voters, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gray Davis has a comfortable lead over Republican Dan Lungren. Which candidate . Dan Lungren is against abortion, except in cases of rape, incest or if the mother's life is in danger.
All results are among likely voters.
Telephone numbers were chosen from a list of all exchanges in the state. The entire sample was weighted slightly to conform with census figures for sex, race, age, education, region and registration. The margin of sampling error for registered voters is plus or minus 3 percentage points and for likely voters, it is 4 points. For certain subgroups the error margin may be somewhat higher. Poll results can also be affected by other factors such as question wording and the order in which questions are presented.