Herbert jumps out of gate with big lead in guv's race

If underdog Peter Corroon hopes to win the Utah governor's race, he'd better start biting into Gary Herbert's lead.

It's sizable.

A Salt Lake Tribune poll gives Herbert, the Republican incumbent, a 25-percentage-point advantage over Corroon, the Democratic Salt Lake County mayor.

More than half (55 percent) want to return Herbert to the governor's chair he inherited in the summer, when Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. became ambassador to China, according to the statewide survey of 625 regular voters.

Corroon netted 30 percent, with 15 percent undecided. (The survey, conducted by Washington D.C.-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., carries an overall 4 percent margin of error.)

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