(WHAS11) - Greg Fischer has a commanding 2-1 lead over Jim King in the WHAS11/Courier-Journal Bluegrass poll of the Democratic primary of the Louisville mayor's race.
42% Fischer
21% King
13% Tandy
7% Allen
2% Farnsley
2% Marshall
2% White
1% Moxley
11% Undecided
"People are responding to our campaign," Fischer said. And an onslaught of attack ads by Jim King against him do not appear to have been effective.
"A lot of response against the negative attacks toward me that have helped the campaign," Fischer said, "People have come as a response to that. They see me as someone who has a much brighter future and will pull people together."
Told that Fischer had suggested the ads had backfired, King responded, "He's done his own share of negative campaigning in the past so I'll let him be the judge of that."
King has leapfrogged David Tandy to climb into second place.
"Eight people in the race, we've passed up six of them, so we've just got one more to pass. And I think we'll do it," King said.
11% of voters are undecided. The trailing candidates are not competitive in our poll, but pooled together, they make up 14% of the vote. Tandy and Tyler Allen have resisted King's pleas for them to drop out and support him.
"I would characterize myself as the most principled participant in this race becasue I didn't come in trying to get a job. I came in because I have a track record of working as a private citizen," Allen said.
"There have been a number of people from since I've said I want to run who have said 'David you shouldn't run, maybe you should just sit back and wait.' But the fact of the matter is we can't wait as a community," Tandy said.
Tandy dominates the black vote, with 45% support compared to 16% for King and 14% for Fischer.
"I think I would be very strong in the African American community if not for David Tandy," King volunteered.
And if Tandy would drop out and support King?
"I think it would put me over the top," King said.
The two other African american candidates Connie Marshall and Lisa Moxley each claim 3 percent of the black vote.
It's a crowded race. but barring some late development, the poll shows that it's Greg Fischer's race to lose.
Compared to an identical poll released one month ago, Fischer is up 11 points, King is up 8, Tandy is down 3. And older voters have rallied around Fischer. Among votes 50 years old and older, Two months ago, Fischer led by 5 points in March, 21 points in April and 28 points today.
