ATLANTA -- The race for the Atlanta mayor's office got a little tighter in the last week, according to a new poll released Friday.

New Poll Shows Shift In Mayor's Race

The new WSB-TV Channel 2/InsiderAdvantage poll shows that Mary Norwood still leads the race with 33 percent, but her lead over Lisa Borders slipped to just six percentage points. Last week Norwood led Borders by eight percentage points.

Although she is still second in the race, Borders actually dropped in percentage points, going from 34 percent to 27 percent this week.

The big gainer was Kasim Reed. He remained in third place, but jumped from nine percentage points to 15 percent.

Reed's campaign got a boost earlier this week when entertainer Jamie Foxx appeared at a fundraiser.

Jesse Spikes went from two percentage points to one point.

Twenty-three percent of those polled remained undecided.

The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus five percent.

Norwood, Borders, Reed and Spikes will address public safety issues at a debate sponsored by the Atlanta Police Foundation on Sunday, Sept. 13. You can see the first 30 minutes of the debate live on WSB-TV Channel 2 at 6:30 p.m. The entire 90 minute debate will livestream on wsbtv.com; it will also air live on News/Talk 750 WSB radio.

Norwood, who so far has not been embraced by any prominent black Atlantans, would be the first white woman to run the city. For eight years, the petite, scrappy 57-year-old has held a citywide post on the 16-member Atlanta council, where she is one of five white members. She said her approach is more on results than race.

"We all come in our packages," she said. "This is the package I got."

Not that Norwood is averse to using racial symbolism. Her campaign headquarters is in the former offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, co-founded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. And when she won support from the city's firefighters, she announced the endorsement from a shuttered fire station in the heavily black West End neighborhood, home to some of the nation's best-known historically black colleges.

David Bositis of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington said cities with large black populations like Gary, Ind., Philadelphia, Baltimore and St. Louis have all had white mayors in recent years.

"African-Americans are very pragmatic. When they look at politics, they look at what's going to work," Bositis said. "It's perfectly fine if a white mayor gets elected with black support. On the other hand, it's not a good sign if you have ... a white candidate getting elected with white votes. It's an indication of polarization."