Omaha, NE.- Is the Mayor's race a three-man battle, or will another major candidate be jumping in?

That's the big question at City Hall as the race is expected to quickly heat up after the first of the year.

Right now the race finds Republican, former Mayor Hal Daub, the apparent frontrunner.

Taking Daub on City Councilman Jim Suttle, who is a Democrat, and Republican Councilman Jim Vokal.

Odds of a 4th candidate are 50-50 at best.

If Daub is the frontrunner, that's just fine with Vokal, "By the end of January or February I think this is truly going to be a two person race, a dead heat between Hal Daub and myself."

And Vokal claims he's got a poll to prove it.

A poll that both the Daub and Suttle campaigns downplay; insisting it was rigged, what's known as a push poll.

Daub's campaign manager Brinker Harding tells Action 3 News the poll asked questions that painted Daub and Suttle in a bad light.

The poll apparently did not mention City Council President Dan Welch, who is still thinking about the race.

Welch says it's wide open, and that voters tell him they're not happy with the three who are running.

The primary is in April the election in May.

As for Vokal's poll he argues its not a push poll because he also told voters some things they might not like about him.

Reported by Joe Jordan, joe@action3news.com