A new poll finds former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman, a billionaire Republican, is now in a dead heat with presumed Democratic nominee Jerry Brown in the race for California governor. The Field Poll out Wednesday also shows she has opened an even wider lead ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ex-Governor Jerry Brown, the presumed Democratic nominee in California's gubernatorial race, has seen his lead over Republican front-runner Meg Whitman evaporate, according to a Field Poll of likely voters released on Wednesday. Brown, the state attorney general who held double-digit leads over Whitman in Field Poll surveys taken in October and January, now trails the former ...

Former eBay chief Meg Whitman's campaign for governor of California has a familiar ring to it: She's an outsider from the business world who promises to sweep the Capitol clean of politics-as-usual and deliver fiscal common sense. California voters have heard ...