New polling from Music City Research, a Nashville-based research firm focused on public opinion polling, reports that Freddie O’Connell is leading the Nashville mayoral race with 20 percent of the vote.
When asked, “If the election for Mayor were held today, who would you vote for?,” 20 percent of respondents said O’Connell.
Trailing O’Connell in the poll is Matt Wiltshire (15 percent), Alice Rolli (13 percent), Heidi Campbell (7 percent), Jeff Yarbro (6 percent), Jim Gingrich (4 percent), Sharon Hurt (3 percent), and Vivian Wilhoite (3 percent).
Meanwhile, 26 percent of respondents were “unsure” when posed with the question while 4 percent said they would vote for a different candidate.
When O’Connell voters were asked who their second choice would be in the mayoral election, 28 percent said Jeff Yarbro.
The poll, conducted from July 5-6, surveyed a total of 502 voters in Nashville.
O’Connell’s lead in the new poll is notable, considering his recent campaign fundraising numbers. On Monday, the Davidson County Election Commission released candidate campaign filings showing how much cash each candidate running for Nashville mayor has on hand through the second quarter of this year.
O’Connell reported to have a total of $419,901 on hand – trailing both Matt Wiltshire’s reported $491,176 and Jeff Yarbro’s $509,848 on hand.
O’Connell, who currently serves as a member on the Metro Nashville Council, is running his mayoral campaign on “Nashville’s affordability, housing and homelessness issues, infrastructure and transit concerns, community safety, and overall quality of life and customer services.” O’Connell describes himself as the “only truly progressive candidate for Mayor.”
The 2023 Nashville mayoral election will be held on August 3, with a runoff on September 14, if necessary. Voter registration ended last week on July 5, as early voting begins this Friday, July 14. The last day to request an absentee ballot is July 27.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Photo “Freddy O’Connell” by Freddy O’Connell.
Nashville continues to sink deeper into the s***hole!
Politicians turning Nashville into another big city welfare trough, soft on criminals, tough on guns, deliberately attracting the lowest common denominators of non-working tax dependent sloth and criminality, to create a loyal constituency in numbers large enough to help “progressives” legally exploit all the state’s taxpayers. Progressives are communists, succeeding by dropping Marxist land grabs (for now.)
Seriously?!
Hard to choose who to vote for when all of them are liberal dolts.
Freddie O’Connell is a self-proclaimed progressive, aka socialist. Look at other cities that have elected socialist mayors (San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago etc.) and see what they have become. Is that what we want for Nashville?
For Heaven’s sake, people, this is a crucial time for the city. Get out and vote for anyone but Freddie O’Connell and save Nashville from ruin.
Please not Freddie nor Yarborough. We don’t need another Cooper…..
Time to move to surrounding conservative counties.
Based on this polling Nashville is trying to become a typical, progressive dump like Atlanta, St Louis, Baltimore, New York, Detroit. Progressives ruin everything they touch.
the fact that this hipster doofus is in the lead says a lot about the nashville political scene.