INDIANAPOLIS, May 21 (UPI) -- Former White House budget director Mitch Daniels has opened up a six-point lead in the race for governor of Indiana, the Indianapolis Star said Friday.
Daniels, who won the Republican nomination in the May 4 primary, now leads Democrat Gov. Joe Kernan, 46 percent to 40 percent, among the 540 likely voters surveyed for the Star and television station WTHR, with 10 percent of those surveyed saying they are still undecided.
A January poll, taken before Daniels began his campaign efforts, showed Kernan, who became governor when two-term incumbent Democrat Frank O'Bannon died suddenly, with a 13-point advantage over Daniels, 49 percent to 36 percent.
The data on the governor's race is taken from a subset of likely voters in a larger poll of 700 Indiana residents and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percent. The poll was conducted over a one week period that ended Wednesday.
