Sep 6, 2007 4:49 pm US/Eastern
City Council President Race Heats Up
by Pat Warren
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―
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Councilman Ken Harris said his internal polls shows he can win the race.
CBS
The race for City Council president has two of the candidates polling in a virtual dead heat, but that is not discouraging another contender in his campaign for the job.
Pat Warren reports on the new push by councilman Ken Harris.
According to two Sun polls, Michael Sarbanes and Stephanie Rawlings Blake are the top contenders. But councilman Ken Harris told
Eyewitness News you can not always believe what you read.
Councilman Ken Harris had his first television spot of the campaign. Harris says he believed some people may have been counting him out.
But it is the votes that count and voter turnout could play a pivotal role.
"The composition of the electorate in Baltimore, the active electorate, shows the turnout is much higher in African-American women than it is in African-American men," said Mathew Crenson, political analyst.
That could give Rawlings-Blake an advantage, if people are not too apathetic to vote.
"There is some of that especially at a time when we just had a very taxing gubernatorial race last year and with the national focus on the presidential race it clearly is a distraction but I am convinced we're doing the work so that it will be a great voting day in Baltimore," said Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, City Council president.
Ken Harris told
Eyewitness News his internal poll shows he can win this race.
The primary election is Sept. 11.
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