#Chicago Mayoral Race Remains a Dead Heat ! @NewsMax

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, left, and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia. (Scott Olson/Getty Images; Brian Kersey/UPI/Landov)

Monday, 09 Mar 2015 02:56 PM

By Jennifer G. Hickey

The highly-contested and heated race between Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and challenger, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, remains in a virtual dead heat, according to a new poll.

According to the weekly poll conducted by Ogden & Fry, Emanuel leads Garcia by 43.5 percent to 38 percent, while 18 percent of respondents said they remain undecided.

After one week of campaigning, Emanuel has increased his support by less than one percent from the firm's Feb. 28 poll which gave the incumbent a 42.9 percent to 38.5 percent advantage over Garcia. In that poll 18.6 percent were undecided.

In the Feb. 24 election, the former Obama administration aide failed to garner the 50 percent of the vote needed to prevent a runoff election. Emanuel won 45 percent of the vote and Garcia, who is the Cook County commissioner, came in second with 34 percent of voters, according to The Chicago Tribune.

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The new one-question poll has a margin of error of 3.13 percent.

The large number of undecided voters does not work in Emanuel's favor because that segment usually does not break for a known incumbent, according to the firm's poll analysis.

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#CHICAGO Emmanel in tight MAYORAL RACE ! @Suntimes

ows a week of campaigning did little to move the needle

Posted: 03/08/2015, 02:41pm |Jon Seidel

Little has changed in the polls for Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (left) and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

A week of campaigning has done little to move voters in Chicago’s heated runoff race for mayor, a new poll shows.

Ogden & Fry released the results of its Saturday survey of 1,020 likely voters. Mayor Rahm Emanuel had 43.5 percent support of the respondents in the one-question poll, while challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia had 38 percent. Eighteen percent of respondents were undecided.

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.13 percent.

Ogden & Fry repeated its contention that Hispanic voters are consistently underrepresented in the data, but it predicted black voters will determine the April 7 election.

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