A.G. Gancarski
The Lenny Curry campaign was quick to respond to the St. Pete’s Poll on the Jacksonville mayoral race, but we’re still waiting to hear from the Alvin Brown campaign.
“Tuesday night Alvin Brown led by just 4.2. This poll says it’s now 3, and when you factor in undecideds and MOE, it looks like a tie. If you told me in June we’d be tied with the Clinton machine’s favorite Floridian 7 weeks before the general election, I wouldn’t have believed you. Lenny was and remains an underdog but it’s clear the people of Jacksonville know they deserve better than Alvin’s failed tenure,” emailed Brian Hughes, on behalf of the Curry campaign.
As reported this morning, a new automated phone poll of 1,076 likely voters from St. Pete Polls is the first one to address the 2015 Jacksonville runoff election for sheriff and mayor. The poll, with a 3 percent margin of error, shows a tight mayoral race with incumbent Democrat Brown slightly ahead of Republican Curry, and also shows that Democratic Sheriff’s candidate Ken Jefferson is ahead of Republican Mike Williams in the very early going.
The poll has Brown ahead of Curry, 49.4 percent to 46.1 percent, showing that in a binary race, there already is a slight skew to Curry from the Bill Bishop supporters in Tuesday’s election — and this poll was taken before pension deal being spiked Wednesday night by the Jacksonville City Council.
With neither Curry nor Brown above 50 percent, the mayoral race clearly hangs in the balance.
