Electing Underdogs

Ed Rendell | Jack Markell | Joe Sestak| Tom Carper | Jared Polis
Dr. Steve Kagen | Kasim Reed | Michael Nutter | Alvin Brown | Bill Thompson
| Jim Gray

Michael Nutter

Michael Nutter

Philadelphia Mayor

  February 2007
Poll
May 2007
Primary Election
Nutter 8% 37%
Fattah 32% 15%
Knox 22% 25%
Brady 18% 15%
Evans 10% 8%

 

Nutter became the first black mayoral candidate in Philadelphia history to win a plurality of both the white vote and the black vote despite being outspent 3:1 by independently wealthy businessman Tom Knox and receiving virtually no support from other elected officials or organized labor.

 

 
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