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The Toronto mayoral race is a dead heat between the three top contenders as Mayor Rob Ford’s support of one-in-four voters remains set in concrete and Olivia Chow has dropped off sharply, a new poll suggests.

The latest Forum Poll has Chow with 29% support of respondents, John Tory at 28% and Ford at 27%, all within the poll’s three percentage points margin of error. However, six-in-ten respondents still call for Ford to resign, suggesting little room for growth for the mayor’s campaign.

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Karen Stintz saw her support rise to 6%, while policy geek David Soknacki’s campaign has yet to hit warp speed, coming in at 5%.

The latest poll is a steep drop for Chow, who had 36% support in a July 2 Forum poll. In the past two weeks, Chow has called for a handgun ban and faced a tough crowd in a Scarborough debate as she supports a seven-stop LRT, not the three-stop subway supported by Ford and Tory.

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While Chow has led in the Forum Poll for months, her lead over her opponents has declined since early June, where she was a full 10 percentage points ahead of her nearest competitor.