With two days to go before the Democratic Albany mayoral primary, the latest YNN/Siena College poll shows city Treasurer Kathy Sheehan leading former councilman Corey Ellis 68 to 20 percent among likely Democratic voters surveyed last week.
That 48-point lead is larger even than the 31-point advantage Sheehan enjoyed among registered Democrats in a YNN/Siena College poll released July 31.
Both candidates have high approval rating, as does outgoing Mayor Jerry Jennings.
And perhaps most interesting, some three-quarters of likely Democratic voters told pollsters they were happy with the choice between Sheehan and Ellis and do not wish there had been another candidate in the race.
Here’s a link to the crosstabs.
Meanwhile, here’s my take on the race more broadly from today’s paper — what it means for the city and the kind of mayor each candidate has said he or she will be.