Pat McCrory says his own polls show he's in the lead.

In an e-mail to supporters, the Charlotte mayor boasts that a statewide survey from Voter Consumer Research in Washington, D.C., shows him in the lead over Republican gubernatorial candidates Fred Smith, Bob Orr and Bill Graham.

He does not provide any numbers for those results, however.

He also says that questions pitting him against either of the two Democratic candidates, Beverly Perdue or Richard Moore, put him slightly ahead of her and slightly behind him, with a large number of undecideds.

"These results are outstanding since we have not initiated a state-wide campaign and it shows we can win both the primary and general election," he writes. "They also show a very large number of undecideds, which means the race is wide open."

For those two questions, he provides the wording and the percentages, but not the raw numbers, the dates of the poll, other questions asked, or who was polled (registered voters, likely voters, general population, etc.).

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole received broad-based support, according to a poll by her campaign.

Her senatorial campaign released more information from the poll by Voter / Consumer Research of Houston after some Democrats criticized a passing mention of it in a column by Rob Christensen.

The poll of 500 North Carolinians on Sept. 11 and 12 showed Dole's job approval rating at 64 percent, and her disapproval rating at 24 percent.

That was an increase in her approval rating of 3 percent since the campaign's June survey.

"Support for Senator Dole is broad based," wrote pollster Jan R. van Lohuizen. "She receives net positive approval ratings from all voter groups and regions of the state; this includes age, income and other demographic characteristics. Even in today’s polarized environment, Senator Dole gets net positive ratings from the Democrats in our sample."

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent.