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November 2, 2009 at 5:25 PM

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KING-TV poll: Seattle mayor's race a dead heat

Posted by Jim Brunner

A new KING-TV poll by the robo-polling firm Survey USA finds Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan all knotted up in the Seattle mayor's race.

The poll has Mallahan with 45 percent to McGinn's 43 percent. With 12 percent undecided and a 4.1 percent margin of error, that means the outcome is totally up in the air, according to the poll.

That's a different story than the poll released last week by University of Washington researchers. That poll of 400 likely voters over a two-week period found Mallahan surging ahead of McGinn.

The results of the only poll that matters will come tomorrow after 8 p.m., when the county reveals election results. If the race is as close as the KING poll suggests, we may not know the winner until much later in the week as later arriving ballots are tallied.

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Seems like McGinn is winning over those undecideds. I guess we won't really know for about a week or so who actually wins this one.  Posted on November 2, 2009 at 7:36 PM by BurlesonBlue. Jump to comment
SurveyUSA has been consistently inconsistent, going back several years. For whatever reason, their advance polling has not shown much resemblance...  Posted on November 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM by ungruntled. Jump to comment
McGinn is a favorite with under 30 y.o. People without mortgages and who want change, especially if someone else pays for it. People who are...  Posted on November 3, 2009 at 12:06 PM by certaindoom. Jump to comment

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