Beshear/Mongiardo tie lead with Henry/True.

Pol watchers is reporting that the first poll by a Democratic ticket has been released by the Beshear/Mongiodo ticket. The poll, conducted by Garin Hart Yang research group in Washington, D.C., said the slate of Beshear and state Sen. Daniel Mongiardo of Hazard is tied with the slate of former Lt. Gov. Steve Henry and Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator Renee True at 21 percent each. Reported at 16 percent was the slate of House Speaker Jody Richards and John Y. Brown III, then Bruce Lunsford and Attorney General Greg Stumbo and then the slate of state Treasurer Jonathan Miller and Jefferson County Attorney Irv Maze tied at 8 percent. Lexington attorney Gatewood Galbraith and Harlan County demolition contractor Otis Hensley tickets each received 7 percent, with nineteen percent of the respondents still undecided. Without more details being released, it is hard to read the poll or to further analyze it. Nonetheless, it confirms my opinion that the race is wide open and the undecideds will decide which two slates will end up in a CERTAIN runoff -- unless the runoff repeal is resurrected by the Legislature.