For most of last week, the OB Rag ran our latest San Diego mayoral election poll, and Bob Filner won it easily hands down.  He garnered 46.7% of the vote which included 169 respondents.

“None of the above” was also a choice, and it came in second with 17.2%.

Among the Republicans running, Carl DeMaio topped the field with a meager 13.6%, followed by Nathan Fletcher with a single-digit of 8.3%, and then Bonnie Dumanis bringing up the rear with 7.1%.  Combined, the GOP candidates won 29% of the vote.

This poll gives credence to the view that Bob Filner could win the election outright at the primary in June 2012. Now, of course, we all know OB Rag readers are not your typical slice of San Diegans, as many are progressives, liberals, or independents.

We also had a category of “Don’t live within the City of San Diego“, and that received 7.1%.  If we remove that category and the category results from “None of the above”, Filner has even a higher proportion of the votes – 61.2%.

With such a high “none of the above” polling, the vote does reflect a dissatisfaction with the candidates that are in the race.  In a similar poll run by the OB Rag last February, Donna Frye won.

Here is the poll in its entirety that ran from August 20 through the 27th.

If the City of San Diego’s mayoral election was held today, which of these major candidates would you vote for? (Please only vote for a candidate if you live within San Diego.)

• Carl DeMaio (R)

23 –13.6%

• Bonnie Dumanis (R)

12–7.1%

• Bob Filner (D)

79–46.7%

• Nathan Fletcher (R)

14–8.3%

• None of the above (and I live in San Diego).

29-17.2%

• Don’t live within the City of San Diego.

12-7.1%

Total Votes: 169 – 100%; Poll started August 20, 2011, ended August 27.

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A lawyer and grassroots activist, I was finally convinced by Patty Jones to start the OB Rag, a blog of citizen journalists, after she got tired of listening to my rants about the news. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.

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