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Sanders edges Frye for San Diego Mayor: 12 hours until polls open in San Diego, Jerry Sanders narrowly defeats Donna Frye for Mayor, according to a SurveyUSA poll of 627 likely city of San Diego voters, conducted exclusively for KGTV-TV. Today, 11/7/05, Sanders gets 52% of the vote, up 2 points from an identical SurveyUSA poll 1 week ago. Frye today gets 47%, down 1 point. Among voters age 35-49, Sanders has gone from a 4-point deficit to a 12-point lead in the last week. In a special election 7/26/05, Frye got 43%, to 27% for Sanders and 24% for Steve Francis, who endorsed Sanders after finishing 3rd. 84% of Francis's voters now choose Sanders. Sanders leads 5:1 among conservatives, 6:1 among Republicans. Frye leads 6:1 among liberals, 3:1 among Democrats. Dick Murphy, who narrowly defeated Frye's write-in candidacy last November, resigned as Mayor effective 7/15/05. |