Libby Mitchell's campaign today released an internal poll showing the Senate President far ahead of her competitors in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. According to the survey of "587 registered and likely June Democratic primary voters" interviewed April 11-14 by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, Mitchell is in the lead with 36% followed by Rowe with 16%, McGowan with 13%, Richardson with 5% and Scarcelli with 4%.

This is the Mitchell campaign's own poll, so take it with a handful of salt.

If accurate, it shows that Mitchell likely has a significant name recognition advantage going into the television advertising wars that are about to begin. Who ends that fight with the advantage and wins the primary is still anyone's guess.

Full polling memo here, including name ID and favorability ratings.