<p>BATON ROUGE - Republican Bobby Jindal, leading Democrat Kathleen Blanco by five points, was nearing a 50 percent majority with likely voters, according to a Times/Louisiana Gannett poll taken this week and released Friday.</p>
<p>Forty-eight percent favored Jindal and 43 percent Blanco. The rest were undecided in the poll of 625 self-identified likely voters statewide was taken Tuesday through Thursday nights.</p>