The good news for Detroit Mayor Duggan: he has a wide lead in a voter poll. The other news: Duggan has less than 50-percent support among likely Detroit voters.
The poll, done for the MIRS News Service in Lansing, gives Duggan 46-percent support, State Senator Coleman Young Jr. 21-percent, and the otehr 33-percent other or undecided.
24-percent said it was important to them to have an African-American mayor. 76-percent said it was not important.
Duggan beats Young by wide margins with white voters and older voters.
The Detroit election is in November.
“While Coleman Young might have a million-dollar name, but with only 21% support, he will need to raise over a million dollars to get Detroiters to vote for him for mayor,” said Dennis Denno, President of Denno Research. “But while many say that Detroit is on the comeback, Detroit voters might not be ready to give all the credit to Mayor Duggan either.”