Mayans doesn't like polls, polls don't like him

Ask Mayor Carlos Mayans about polls, and he'll tell you he hasn't taken any in six campaigns (five for state representative, one for mayor). A self-described populist, he says there's only one real poll -- Election Day. Mayoral candidate Carl Brewer, meanwhile, spent $14,000 on polling and phone banks.

Now a poll has been taken by KWCH Channel 12 and The Wichita Eagle. It shows Brewer up 22 percent over Mayans in the race for mayor. The automated phone survey polled 470 likely voters and was conducted by Survey USA a week before the April 3 election.

Of those asked, 58 percent plan to vote for Brewer, 36 percent plan to vote for Mayans and 6 percent said they were undecided or planned to pick someone else, presumably a write-in. There's a 4.6 percent margin of error. In the poll, Brewer leads among all age groups as well as among men, women, black and white voters.