There’s a lot of time between now and the June primary. And for some of the candidates whose names will be on the ballot, a new poll shows they need all the time they can get.

Today’s Field Poll tested voter recognition of 28 men and women who either are announced candidates for statewide office, or rumored to have an interest. Of those, only 6 candidates elicited any opinion at all from a majority of those surveyed.

Three of those were possible candidates for governor: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and actor/directors Warren Beatty and Rob Reiner.

The other three candidates who sparked an opinion in at least 50% of those surveyed: Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante, running for the Democratic nomination for insurance commissioner… Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, seeking the Democratic nomination for attorney general… and Sen. Tom McClintock, a candidate for the GOP nomination for lieutenant governor.

After that, the candidates interested in statewide office seemed to draw a collective response of… “who?”

The candidate for higher office who drew the most blank looks appears to have been Assemblymember Dario Frommer (D-Glendale), who’s seeking his party’s nomination for state controller in 2006. Frommer elicited an opinion from only 9% of those surveyed.

[The poll is here]

Other tidbits:

* Reiner apparently has higher favorables than Beatty among Democrats (37% vs. 27%), and slightly more than Treasurer Phil Angelides (33%), with Controller Steve Westly slightly behind Beatty at 24%.

* Among non-partisan voters… a key segment of the vote… Schwarzenegger was still slightly above the entire Democratic pack.

* And now, the disclaimer: all of this might mean exactly squat. Almost none of these candidates have even begun to mount a serious campaign with visible public events. Of course, if nothing else, the numbers show that some of these candidates have a lot of work ahead of them in the next 6 months before the June primary.