Poll shows Artur Davis with 50% of black vote in race to Democratic nomination for Alabama governor

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A new poll commissioned and paid for by the Artur Davis campaign shows the Birmingham congressman with a double-digit lead in the race for the Democratic Party nomination for gover­nor.

The poll shows Davis leading Ron Sparks 46-33 percent. The poll has a mar­gin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.

Both the Democratic and Republican primaries are June 1.

The poll shows Davis, who is black, splitting the state's white vote with Sparks, who is white. Sparks has 42 percent of that vote and Davis 41.

Among black voters, Da­vis is leading with 50 per­cent of the vote compared to 25 percent for Sparks. An­other 25 percent is unde­cided.

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