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[MI] Poll: Incumbent Detroit Mayor [Kilpatrick] Trailing
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jul 17, 2005 12:52pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Sunday, July 17, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Associated Press
Sunday, July 17, 2005; 10:46 AM
DETROIT -- A new poll of likely voters shows challenger Freman Hendrix leading incumbent Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick by 15 percentage points with the nonpartisan mayoral primary just over two weeks away.
Kilpatrick has been plagued by the city's $300 million budget deficit, hundreds of layoffs, scrutiny over his use of a city credit card and the city's lease of a luxury SUV for his family.
Asked whom they would vote for in a four-way race between Hendrix, Kilpatrick, City Councilwoman Sharon McPhail and state Sen. Hansen Clarke, 38 percent of those surveyed said Hendrix, 23 percent said Kilpatrick, 14 percent said McPhail and 8 percent said Clarke. Seventeen percent said they didn't know or refused to answer.
Twelve candidates are running in the Aug. 2 primary. The top two vote-getters face off in the Nov. 8 general election.
If the primary resulted in a general election between Hendrix and Kilpatrick held today, 57 percent of those polled said they would vote for Hendrix, who was deputy mayor under former Mayor Dennis Archer; 27 percent would choose Kilpatrick, who succeeded Archer and is seeking a second term; and 16 percent said they didn't know or refused to answer. |
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