Governor's race narrows to 4 points as Jindal drops, Blanco gains in poll [View All]

[Freddie Stubbs]

BATON ROUGE - The governor's race narrowed to a four-point gap, a dramatic shift as Republican Bobby Jindal dropped three points and Democrat Kathleen Blanco rose two points in Verne Kennedy's tracking poll out Thursday morning.

The poll trends led Kennedy to say the race is becoming too close to call.

The sample of 600 people taken three nights through Wednesday night put it at 46 percent for Jindal, down from 49 percent from the day before, and 42 percent for Blanco, up from 39 percent the day before.

Kennedy said his projections show that if the election had been held Tuesday, Jindal would have been ahead by one 1 percent, which means the race is within the poll's margin of error of 4 points.

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