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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Gritsforbreakfast wrote on 1/7/2010 3:45 p.m.
Quite a result from their "zero tolerance" policy, huh?
A really interesting aspect of the report not highlighted in the story was the gender makeup of staff engaged in sex acts with incarcerated youth: "Approximately 95% of all youth reporting staff sexual misconduct said they had been victimized by female staff. In 2008, 42% of staff in state juvenile facilities were female."
Dixie wrote on 1/9/2010 11:08 a.m.
95% of the victims were victimized by 42% of the staff? Those female staff have really been busy, haven't they?
I don't think so. The witch hunt continues, and based on anonymous answers given by adjudicated youth to a computer. What a waste of time and money.