(WSB Radio)  It's an election that's garnering a lot of national attention, perhaps more than it is locally.

Atlantans go to the polls Tuesday to elect a new mayor, but the campaign, despite massive media attention, doesn't seem to have energized the electorate.

"We've seen a very lackluster early voting and very low new voter registration," says WSB political analyst Bill Crane, "both of which tell you that, even though people are paying attention and the media ads on television and radio are getting them to decide who they're going to vote for, I still think we're going to see somewhere around 50,000 to 75,000 people voting in that election tomorrow."

The top four candidates debated for the final time on Sunday night, with frontrunner Mary Norwood seemingly sidestepping questions about her party affiliation in the past.

Norwood is vying to be the first white mayor of Atlanta since 1973.  But Crane believes race is not the overriding factor in the mayoral election.

"I still think it's a major factor, but I just don't think it's the number one factor," Crane says.  "I think crime, as an issue in this election, supercedes the color of the mayoral candidate."