Team Whitman's senior strategist Mike Murphy and senior adviser Jeff Randle held a press conference with reporters today to discuss the latest SurveyUSA poll (54-27) and a new internal poll of 600 primary Republican voters (53-27), done by campaign pollster John McLaughlin, showing Meg Whitman with a commanding lead over Steve Poizner.  

The campaign acknowledged a tightening when Poizner went after Whitman with a negative ad campaign, with some polls putting the Republicans within 9 points of one another.  

With all the Steve Poizner press releases highlighting polls in the past three weeks, I continue to ask: will Steve Poizner be issuing a press release showing he is now within 27 percentage points from frontrunner, Meg Whitman? 

Murphy and Randle Press Conference:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzUfS0s6atA

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr3OE5qmZec