ROTHSCHILD LEADS DEMS' MAYORAL ELECTION POLL

posted by Andrea Kelly

Democrat Jonathan Rothschild leads Republican Rick Grinnell in the race for Tucson Mayor, according to a poll the Pima County Democratic Party recently conducted.

The results peg Rothschild at 49 percent of the voters surveyed, to Grinnell's 32 percent. Green Mary DeCamp got 4 percent of the votes in the poll.

The party hired Global Strategy Group to do the poll, which has done work for a number of Democrats and Democrat committees, including U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva.

The firm surveyed 400 city residents who are likely to vote in the election. The results were taken Oct. 10 through Oct. 12, and the margin of error is 4.9 percent. The wording of the questions was not included in a news release from the Pima County Democratic Party.

The results showing Rothschild ahead are indicative of the city's voter registration trends. Recent city voter registration numbers show 44 percent of registered voters in Tucson are Democrats, and 25 percent of registered voters in the city are Republicans. The Green Party has less than one percent of the registered voters in Tucson.