The city’s political leaders have come out in support of State Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams in the four-way race for governor, but that support will have to translate into big turnout and a big victory in Philadelphia if he’s going to have a chance at becoming governor, observers say.

“Normally, the turnout in the western part of the state is much better,” said Berwood Yost, director of the Floyd Institute for Public Policy at Franklin and Marshall College. “How does he generate the enthusiasm to even that out?”

In Philadelphia, you do that by getting people on the streets on Election Day. Williams has the Democratic City Committee endorsement and is backed by Mayor Nutter and District Attorney Seth Williams, but City Council may be a better predictor of how the Democratic machine will perform.

He has the support of nine of 14 Democratic City Council members, including its Democratic leadership.

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