The Polling Center: First Take on the February 2010 Results | 2/12/10
The University of Texas / Texas Tribune poll, conducted from February 1-7, shows Gov. Rick Perry holding a 24-point lead over U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican gubernatorial primary contest, with Debra Medina posing a surprisingly strong challenge to Hutchison for second place. Perry garnered 45% of the vote, Hutchison 21%, Debra Medina 19%, with 16% undecided. The sample of 366 Republican primary voters has a margin of error of +/- 5.12 percentage points.
In the Democratic primary, former Houston Mayor Bill White has a 48%-14% advantage over businessman Farouk Shami. Thirty-eight percent of the Democratic sampled ...
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damelder wrote on 11/6/2009 11:19 a.m.
Chuck Hopson is a coward. It will be fitting to watch him lose next year's GOP Primary. There is no way that Republican voters will so easily forget his former party affiliation.
EHascal wrote on 11/6/2009 11:20 a.m.
Wow. I am shocked and dismayed. I don't know if a purely political defection will garner him enough support to win.
I wonder if the teabaggers have an influence on him?
spitze wrote on 11/6/2009 2:33 p.m.
He will be dumped like NY-23
kenecollier wrote on 11/6/2009 4:49 p.m.
Hopson likely would almost certainly have lost to in 2010. The Democrats should be happy to have Hopson in that seat next session rather than the kind of far right Republican that is likely to win the nomination in the spring when the conservatives are in a frenzy.