We're all going to be thinking about a lot of stuff when we vote in the first-ever district elections for city council seats this fall. Skyrocketing rents, police brutality, our continued surrender to our Amazon overlords. A new poll shows the downtown tunnel project will probably make the list, too.

On January 29, local political consultant John Wyble conducted a survey on behalf of the Cascade chapter of the Sierra Club reminding 700 likely primary voters of Sally Clark's and Tim Burgess' support of the tunnel project and asking if they'd reelect them. (This, obviously, was before Wyble or anyone else knew Clark would decline to seek reelection.) The results showed voters preferred other—theoretical, unnamed—candidates over both Burgess and Clark.

Of course, that was after being asked about the tunnel issue this way: "Seattle City Council member Tim Burgess/Sally Clark has been a consistent supporter of the deep bore tunnel project since the beginning and strongly supports finishing the project despite delays, safety concerns and rising costs. Will you vote to re-elect Tim Burgess/Sally Clark?"

Still, in Burgess' race, after hearing the question only 34.3 percent said they'd vote for him while 48.7 percent said they'd vote for another, unnamed candidate. Clark did slightly better: 36.9 percent said they'd vote for her while 47.1 percent chose another candidate.

Let's pause here to acknowledge that this might fairly be described as a push poll.

While we're at it, let's also remember that Wyble, though he was working for the Sierra Club when he conducted this poll, has a synergy of interests on this issue. He's a local political consultant with a candidate running in every district this year—Brianna Thomas (District 1, West Seattle); Tammy Morales (District 2, Southeast Seattle); Morgan Beach (District 3, Capitol Hill); Michael Maddux (District 4, Northeast Seattle); Halei Watkins (District 5, North Seattle); Council Member Mike O’Brien (running in the 6th, covering Ballard and Fremont, but now considering a citywide run for Clark's old seat); and Jon Grant (running citywide, but hasn’t declared whether he's gunning for Clark's old seat or Burgess's seat—though, and please pardon the council nerd minutia here, if O'Brien runs for Clark's old seat, and Wyble represents both O'Brien and Grant, then it's hard to imagine Grant not picking Burgess as his target).

With that, back to Wyble's poll. It also asked the tunnel question more generically: "Some people are saying it's time to stop construction on the deep bore tunnel due to safety issues and rising costs. Others are saying it's not time to stop construction and we should keep moving forward until it's finished. In this year's city council elections, will you support the re-election of city council candidates who have supported the tunnel project since the beginning and currently support moving the tunnel project toward completion?"

The results: 47.2 percent of those asked were willing to re-elect a tunnel supporter and 52.8 percent said they'd rather support another candidate.

"The survey clearly shows that voters are paying attention and are frustrated by the project," Wyble wrote in a memo about the results for the Sierra Club. (We feel ya.) "They are also frustrated and disappointed in the current city council members roles in pushing the project and their continued unmitigated support."

Look a little closer at the numbers and you'll see one interesting wrinkle: young people appear to be more supportive of Burgess and Clark—despite the fact they're often counted among the most conservative members of the council—and people in South and West Seattle are less supportive of Burgess and Clark than those in the eastern and northern parts of the city.

Take note, candidates.

"Those are the tax sensitive areas," Wyble says about southern Seattle and West Seattle. "They're worried about cost overruns. ... I wouldn't want to be a tunnel supporter in West Seattle." And young people? Are they just not paying attention? Don't be so cynical! Wyble says the survey only calls landlines, so "you are getting kind of the most conservative 18- to 34-year-olds in the city that still have landlines. You’re probably not getting too many Stranger readers." (But, he points out, older "homeowners with landline phones" will probably be the majority of voters in the August primary.)

Here's the full breakdown of how Burgess and Clark each did in the poll. (That second set of numbers refers to legislative districts).