11th Cong Dist: a four-way tie

[brooklynite]

Run for 11th is all tied up

BY ELIZABETH HAYS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

As a nasty Brooklyn congressional race goes down to the wire, a new privately conducted poll shows the four candidates virtually tied before Tuesday's primary.

The results of the poll, first reported by Daily News political columnist Ben Smith on his blog yesterday, show City Council members Yvette Clarke (D-Flatbush) and David Yassky (D-Brooklyn Heights) with 20% of the vote each.

State Sen. Carl Andrews (D-Crown Heights) and Chris Owens, son of retiring incumbent Major Owens, both got 19% of the vote in the survey conducted by pollster Tom Kiley and paid for by a private company.

That leaves 22% of voters undecided in the splintered race for the 11th Congressional District, which includes Crown Heights, Flatbush and parts of Park Slope.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/450505p-379061c.html

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1. That's a very interesting race.

It's a district that has faced deep gentrification from manhattanites looking for cheaper space. Yassky has gotten a good reaction from voters, and the other candidates are doing everything they can to prevent him from winning.