An ongoing controversy involving Mayor Rob Ford has done little to dent his support, suggests a new poll from Forum Research.

The random poll of nearly 1,400 Torontonians examined a number of hypothetical matchups in the 2014 race for mayor and though the poll suggests Ford would still lose to Olivia Chow should the NDP MP enter the race, the margin of defeat was virtually unchanged from an identical poll two weeks ago.

The poll found that Chow would coast to an easy victory in a head-to-head race with Ford, garnering about 57 per cent of the vote to Ford’s 36 per cent with about nine per cent of respondents identifying themselves as undecided.

In the same poll on May 10, 57 per cent of respondents said they would vote for Chow while 36 per cent said they would cast a ballot for Ford with seven per cent undecided.

In a three way race between Ford, Chow and former Progressive Conservative party leader John Tory, the poll suggests Chow would again win with about 42 per cent of the vote to Ford’s 27 per cent and Tory’s 24 per cent. That scenario too is virtually unchanged from the May 10 poll.

In the event that TTC Chair Karen Stintz enters the race in place of Tory, Chow would win with 42 per cent of the vote compared to Ford’s 34 per cent and Stintz’s 16 per cent, according to the poll. In that scenario, Ford’s support dropped one percentage point from the May 10 poll.

"The only certainty is that the Ford Nation is pretty solid and he has the advantage of about a one third head start right off the bat while the others kind of have to work at that," Forum Research President Lorne Bozinoff told CP24 Monday afternoon. "He has his challenges, though. When he got elected he obviously carried the Ford Nation, but he also took about 10 per cent of the swing voters and that group is not with him now. He has to find those swing voters and I don't know if the controversy is helping."

On the evening of May 16, the Toronto Star alleged that two of its reporters had viewed cellphone video that appeared to show the mayor smoking from a glass pipe.

The Star reported that it had been approached by Somali drug dealers who wanted to sell the video for a six-figure sum, but the newspaper declined and the alleged video has not yet surfaced.

Ford spoke to reporters briefly the day after the report surfaced, dismissing the allegations as "ridiculous" and blaming the Toronto Star for having a vendetta against him.

Ford repeated that view again Friday after colleagues on council urged him to break his silence on the matter.

The Forum Research poll was conducted via telephone on the evening following Ford’s remarks.

"The Ford Nation is with him and they are of two minds. They either don’t believe the allegations or they don’t care. It’s one or the other," Bozinoff said. "It's always the same. This is now the fourth time allegations have come up with him and in all of those cases it is a group of people saying they don't believe the allegations and the rest saying they don't care."

Results of the poll are considered accurate to within three percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

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