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UW professor: Mallahan lost lead as undecideds broke for McGinn
Posted by Emily Heffter
University of Washington Professor Matt Barreto defended a poll he published just before the Seattle mayoral election showing Mike McGinn trailing Joe Mallahan by seven points.
The candidates were separated in the batch of election returns Tuesday night by just 910 votes, with McGinn in the lead.
Barreto said he thinks his poll was right, and McGinn's last-minute gains are a testament to his get-out-the-vote effort. They also show undecided voters are breaking for McGinn, Barreto said.
His poll showed 19 percent of likely voters were undecided.
Barreto noted that the poll mirrored Tuesday's results in the King County executive's race almost exactly.
"We don't think that the poll was wrong at the time that it was taken," he said. "We think that some things happened in the last week of the election."
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