Turnout will be key to victory, observers say
That's the message from two independent statewide voter polls released Wednesday on the Nov. 15 gubernatorial runoff between Democrat Kathleen Blanco and Republican Bobby Jindal.
Jindal leads with 44 percent to Blanco's 40 percent among likely voters polled by the Survey Research Center at the University of New Orleans, but those numbers represent a statistical tie considering the possible margin of error in the poll.
Blanco leads with 39 percent to Jindal's 38 percent among registered voters in a poll by Loyola University political scientist Ed Renwick for WWL-TV. That measure includes how voters are "leaning" in the race. In the New Orleans area, Jindal leads with 41 percent to Blanco's 32 percent.
Renwick's poll also showed that Democratic incumbent Robert Wooley leads Republican challenger Dan Kyle 27 percent to 19 percent in the insurance commissioner race, with the majority of voters still undecided.
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