UT/TT Poll: Economy and Immigration Top Voter Concerns
Texas voters remain concerned about the economy and immigration, and they continue to believe the state is moving in the right direction while the country is on the wrong track, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
The economy leads the list of most important problems facing the country, at 24 percent, followed by federal spending/national debt at 19 percent and political corruption/leadership, at 11 percent. Those three items together accounted for more than half of the responses to that question.
Immigration, at 15 percent, and border security, at 13 percent, lead the state list, followed ...

Comments (13)
Jeremy Jones via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This data is only helpful when given context about which direction folks would rather be going.
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Only in places like Texas is positive jobs growth, and an albeit slow but nonetheless consistent and sustained recovery from a severe recession considered going in the wrong direction.
Jalapeño Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Where is the graph for Texans with heads in the sand?
Jalapeño Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Positive growth of temp non sustainable oil jobs and low wage non oil jobs only! Not progress!
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm not talking just about Texas when I'm talking about jobs growth. Not every place is like Texas with low paying jobs (although from the graph above, most Texas seem fine with crappy, low paying jobs - no doubt as long as they're for others).
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Time for that secession vote, ye 62% ingrates! Check your financial statements first though, because if you work in a federal-subsidy based job like education, defense, transportation, construction....almost everything, you might regret it when your independent Republic of Texas stops getting the billions annually from Uncle Sam and your Emperor Perry abolishes government and the state goes Mad Max/Thunderdome.
Carlitos Way via Texas Tribune on Facebook
As long as the government governs around fake crisis like the deficit we'll continue to go in the wrong direction. We're not doing much to grow the economy(jobs, education, healthcare cost). Most Americans don't seem to even realize what's going on.
Aron Pena via Texas Tribune on Facebook
17 Trillion in debt direction. I agree this is the wrong direction. Especially when 2 trillion over 10 years gets every Democrat in crisis mode.
Pickles Sorrell
Yeah here's Ross writing another article using data from that crappy internet poll. Some people just won't admit they've screwed up. Once again this polling data is crap and not worth the paper you'd print it on.
Rick Chabot via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Jim. I'm not for secession but Texas receives $1 for every $2 it pays to the govt.
Matthew Cowan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Jobs are jobs. You call them low paying others call it employment. Better to have a job than being on the Govt. dole. For those who say that the jobs are just temp jobs and low paying jobs are full of it.
Texas is leading in jobs in Energy, Petrochemical industry, machinery manufacturing, Professional services and digital data centers. Those are not Temp or low paying jobs.
http://siteselection.com/issues/2013/mar/cover.cfm
Arthur M. Thomas IV via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can we stop it with the simplistic charts?
Janna Cannady
What a sad state we are in!