6 days until votes are counted in California, Republican Brian Bilbray and Democrat Scott Peters are tied, 46% to 46%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KGTV-TV in San Diego. Peters leads among younger voters, Bilbray leads among older voters. As evidence of how closely contested the contest is: men split, women split, whites split, those who have already voted split, those who have not yet voted split, middle-income and upper-income voters split.

Cell-phone and home-phone respondents included in this research, which was conducted 100% by telephone: SurveyUSA interviewed 700 registered voters from California's 52nd Congressional District 10/28/12 through 10/30/12, using registration based (voter list) sample from Aristotle in Washington DC. Of the registered voters, 628 were determined by SurveyUSA to have already returned a ballot, or to be likely to do so on or before election day. This research was conducted 100% by telephone. Respondents reachable on a home telephone (82% of likely voters) were interviewed on their home telephone in the recorded voice of a professional announcer. Respondents not reachable on a home telephone (18% of likely voters) were called by live-operators, who hand-dialed the phone, qualified the respondent, interviewed the respondent, logged the respondent's answers and remained on the line until the conclusion of the call.