D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s once enthusiastic support from the District’s black voters has seriously eroded, a new poll shows. Gray’s citywide approval rating is a dismal 31 percent, according to a Clarus poll of 500 D.C. voters taken on Monday and Tuesday. That’s only about 6 points higher than Marion Barry’s approval rating six months after he was caught on tape smoking crack in a District hotel room in 1990. After being plagued by scandals for more than a month, 40 percent of D.C. residents now disapprove of the job Gray is doing, the Clarus poll found.

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