Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Now Losing in Reelection Bid By 11 Points, to... Opponent Who Openly Declares Xerself to be Antifa

Something tells me the media will not be breathlessly reporting on this poll, preferring the Happy Hugbox of polls about Trump slipping.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) is polling 11 points behind opponent Sarah Iannarone ahead of the November general election, according to reports from the independent data firm DHM Research, despite handily beating her in the primary earlier this year.

Portland newspaper Willamette Week reported Monday that the DHM results showed that among those surveyed, Wheeler polls at 30 percent compared to Iannarone's 41 percent. About 16 percent of voters favored a write-in candidate, while 13 percent were undecided.

The poll, which was conducted by phone from Sept. 17 to 22 and reported a 4-point margin of error, comes after Iannarone came in 20 points behind the mayor in May’s primary election.

Obviously those write-ins represent people who cannot support the antifa-enabling Wheeler but also can't then vote for his antifa-identifying opponent.

Is it possible that this poll will make it possible for people to coalesce around a single acceptable write-in candidate, to avoid the new antifa-identifying mayor?

I think any semi-reasonable Democrat with name recognition can now win as a write-in. Wheeler's less extremist backers will switch to support the write-in now that they see he's losing to the declared antifa candidate.

The trouble with that is: The Democrat Party is now just the more respectable wing of the antifa/BLM revolutionary party.

Via Kyle Sheideler.

posted by Ace at 01:52 PM

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