Projo Politics Blog

PROVIDENCE – Democratic Mayor David N. Cicilline leads his Republican opponent, Daniel Harrop, by 66 percent to 13 percent, with 21 percent undecided, according to a new citywide survey conducted by researchers at Brown University.

That’s based on polling data from 317 voters who said they were likely to vote in this November’s election, just two weeks away. The survey was conducted at Brown on Oct. 14-17 by Darrell M. West, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and the John Hazen White Sr. Public Opinion Laboratory, and Marion Orr, the Frederick Lippitt Chair of Public Policy, Political Science, and Urban Studies.

The survey is based on a citywide random sample of 403 Providence residents. Overall, the poll had a margin of error of about plus or minus 5 percentage points.

Sixty-four percent of those polled believe the city is headed in the right direction, while 23 percent think it is off on the wrong track. Sixty-two percent believe that Cicilline is doing a good job handling his position, while 21 percent rate him only fair, and 6 percent say he is doing a poor job.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

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