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SACRAMENTO – Tuesday’s election for attorney general is a tossup, with Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Steve Cooley virtually tied as Harris gains ground in vote-rich Los Angeles County and among women, according to the latest Field Poll.

In the lieutenant governor’s contest, Democrat Gavin Newsom has a narrow lead over Republican Abel Maldonado, today’s poll of likely voters found.

Since July, Harris, the San Francisco district attorney, has inched closer to Cooley, the district attorney in Los Angeles. Today’s poll shows Cooley with 39 percent and Harris with 38 percent among likely voters. Almost a quarter of likely voters remain undecided.

“It’s kind of following the same pattern that we’ve seen in the top-of-ticket races: Because there are more Democrats than Republicans, that benefits Harris,” poll director Mark DiCamillo said.

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From Tulsa World:

There, the incumbent one-term Democrat, Kim Holland, has a lead over the Republican nominee, John Doak, of 43 percent to 41 percent – within the poll’s margin of error.

Holland is the senior statewide officer on the ballot, having been appointed to the office in 2005 after the resignation of Carroll Fisher.

With the retirements of Attorney General Drew Edmondson and State Superintendent Sandy Garrett, the decision by Treasurer Scott Meacham not to seek another term and the choice by Lt. Gov. Jari Askins to run for governor, the only other elected incumbent on Tuesday’s statewide ballot is Labor Commissioner Lloyd Fields, a surprise winner in 2006.

Fields, a Democrat, trails Mark Costello, an Oklahoma City businessman, 46 percent to 33 percent in the latest Oklahoma Poll survey conducted Oct. 18-23.

Costello, who has put more than $480,000 of his own money into the race, has a huge funding advantage over Fields, but money does not appear to necessarily be the deciding factor in the races.

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From 11alive.com:

In the Lieutenant Governor’s race, Republican incumbent Casey Cagle maintains his lead over Democrat Carol Porter 53-to-37 percent. Republican Attorney General candidate and former Cobb County Commission Chairman Sam Olens has a 13 point lead over Democratic challenger Ken Hodges. Libertarian candidate Don Smart has 7 percent overall, leading to the outside chance of a Olens-Hodges runoff, though since Olens has exactly 50 percent as of this poll, it is not likely.

GOP ex-principal John Barge’s 13-point lead over Democratic opponent Joe Martin still has him below 50 percent, leading to a higher likelihood that he may be facing a runoff in the state school superintendent’s race.

As was true in the last poll, about 8-of-10 partisan voters are sticking with their party’s candidate, but independent voters are leaning strongly toward Republican candidates, mirroring similar polling data from across the country. The Republican candidate is holding a significant lead in each contest among those voters who have cast early ballots.

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