Romney Has Big Lead in Texas, Survey Finds
Mitt Romney may be struggling in some key swing states, but there’s no slippage for him in conservative Texas, a new poll shows.
Thanks to a lopsided lead among white voters, Romney is leading President Obama 55-40, according to a poll from Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research, which carries out surveys for GOP candidates. That’s even higher than John McCain scored against Obama in 2008.
Chris Perkins, who is a partner at the research firm and served as the pollster for U.S. Senate hopeful Ted Cruz in his Republican primary victory over Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, said ...
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Laurie Hamilton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
:(
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
WoW....TEAxas still refuses to wakeup and will vote for corporate control. Very sad.
Kurt Johnson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm sure that will give the ultimate victory to Romney.
James William Tingle via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It't a shame that so many of my fellow Texans are that ignorant.
Eugene Covill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'll take corporate control over government control any day!
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Wow, clueless liberals like Bambi still refuse to wake up and will vote for socialist dictatorship. Very sad.
Tim Spotswood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm surprised Obama has that much support here in TX. We will also be voting for Governor Perry again, I'm sure..... we are sooooo screwed.....
Chris Bates via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas proves time and time again how they have lost their way and their political astuteness. After all we are no longer first in anything but right wing rhetoric!
Jason Edwards via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So PROUD TO BE A TEXAN!!! Keep up the good work.
Honestly , ya don't like it , move!
Mark Lube via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Thank God Romney leads 'the messiah'! God bless Texas!
Anne Miller-Tinsley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I've never voted for Gov. Goodhair, and I wish I knew some way to help defeat him. Dave Mundy, be careful how you sling words like clueless.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If Obama was a "socialist dictator" we would be moving towards single-payer healthcare. And we are not. So name his socialist policies?
Sandy Bates Emmons via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yes, Eugene would rather have us back in the dark ages and let a caste like system prevail. Dear Eugene, I hope you are a millionaire because you are voting like one.
Andy Myers via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can't wait to get the hell out of TEXAS! You can have it!
Britt R. Daniels via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Jason, I have lived here my whole life. I ain't leavin', and Texans need to wake up and realize that we're blind as hell. God save Texas from the Right-Wing bull.
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I don't know mark, maybe when the muzzies start roaming the streets of austin cutting the heads off of college professors, they'll finally understand WHY we can't support Obama any more
Debbie Spencer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Wow, morally bankrupt old white men like Dave will continue to vote for fascists, greedy, tyrannical douche bags because they think someday they'll become wealthy if they can just kiss enough ass and keep their noses to the grindstone.
Adam W Vanek via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I would hope so. McCain was not a very good candidate.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If everyone who does not like it (40%) moved (plus all the undocumented they wish to deport) TX's economy would crash. DUH!
Stephen J Wright via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Jason, you move. This is just as much my state as it is yours.
P Kellach Waddle via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Once again, what a SHOCK. ( sarcasm) -- as we said in 2004 -- John Kerrey was president of Austin. :) And yes, there's no Democratic hope in this state at all, never has been, prayerfully that will be counterbalanced elsewhere. :) ( To be honest .. like someone said above-- I am shocked the President even has the 40% he DOES have here-- I am shocked it's not 65/35 or even 75/25) oh well. :) ( Just my 2 cents from yes, another " CLUELESS LIBERAL" :) )
Kiyano La' Vin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
and it still didnt help and it wont help now....
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If McCain "was not a very good candidate" that makes Mitt a good one? *LOL*
Karen Browder via Texas Tribune on Facebook
ignorant and uneducated white voters who blindly believe the rants of Rush and Faux News... will the downfall of Texas
Brandon Estes via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's funny - the very Texan's who are going to vote for Romney, after they brush their tooth and grab their rifle, are the very people Romney wants to screw (without the grease, too!). It's amazing the rhetoric people will buy into without any thought, as long as it perpetuates some rootin' tootin' stereotype that they like to fit into... A few more years and evolution may weed out Texas.
Shannon Strong via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That is not surprising. Let's just please keep them out of Austin. Lol. I understand a select few have to infiltrate the Government buildings that reside there, and the rest would prefer to live elsewhere...and that's fiiiine with me. I like my nature and respect for diversity, and economic balance.
Kim Dembrosky via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well, there's a bunch of rich old white men in Texas, who would like to hold on to their power and money as long as possible. It's cute how they've convinced so much of the working class to vote against their own interests. Great advertising will do that. As they say...baffle em with bullshit, eh?
Sandy Bates Emmons via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry encouraged everyone to move to Texas remember? Well, half of California did it seems (especially in Austin and the Hill Country). So maybe there was an upside to his idiotic commercials because the sea of red may be changing to a sea of blue in some parts of Texas.
Scott Ericksen via Texas Tribune on Facebook
BFD!
Kay Golden Eissler via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas and I am a native Texas is going down the tubes fast...the only thing we are first in anymore is having the dumbest Guv and wingnuts in the country!
P Kellach Waddle via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I am indeed certainly used to the right wing lunacy from both of " my " states.. ( my adopted living state of TX and still " home" where the family is in KY) -- but my goodness did someone actually write " when the muzzies" the MUZZIES? REALLY? Again, we have to defend free speech in America even if said free speech is often abhorrent and shameful.. but lordy.. MUZZIES-- I think I might be LESS horrified if I saw someone type the N word. But ya know.. whatever..::SMH:: Muzzies, honestly. I think we need to be more afraid of the people roaming the streets who say MUZZIES myself.. :)
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I fought them, Senor Waddle. When you've done that maybe you'll understand.
Mark Lube via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Amen Dave
Anne Miller-Tinsley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm a lifelong Texan and a lifelong Democrat. I also remember when the only Republicans in Texas were ashamed to admit it. These right-wing hater Republicans who worship the man with the magic underwear are not my daddy's Republicans. Certainly not Barry Goldwater's Republicans. I'm voting (again) for President Obama.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We have fought Japan, Germany, etc. Does that mean we slander them too?
Sandy Bates Emmons via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dave with the derogatory statements is much scarier to me than anything else. The sad thing is, there are millions of Texans who share his shameful views and use these terms. I know because I live behind the Pine Curtain in East Texas and the woods are full of the uneducated and prejudice.
Candyce Byrne via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's not surprising because the Democrats have conceded Texas to the Republicans, and so the rightwing runs riot here. But not everybody is crazy. We're just hiding. For our safety. Please come save us!
Mark Lube via Texas Tribune on Facebook
so Dave's comments are worst than Muslims killing our diplomats and dragging their corpse through the streets?
James Oeltjen via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Bambi, Japan and Germany are not religious idealogies that promote murder, the abuse of women and other such crap, are they?
Leah Steinbrink via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Like P Kellach, I'm mortified to even live in a state where people refer to MUZZIES -wtf is that? Muslim Fuzzies? Asinine. And who can be surprised about how Texas is perceiving this race? With all the "redistricting" going on here, the conservatives are trying to make it where "clueless liberals'" votes won't count, anyway. Obama is doing far better than republicans or the media (who have to fill up 24 hours a day of news until the election) want to admit. If there's no race, there's no news.
Brandon Estes via Texas Tribune on Facebook
R. Clayton - I agree! It was just too easy to not single out Red Texans in this string... The only people he doesn't want to screw are the people that are lining his pockets. As the country has seen, he is no more than a puppet with the arms of corporations/lobbyists stuffed up his ass, telling him what to say. It's like money laundering - take from the middle class and below, give to billionaires, and the billionaires give Romney (and other R's) a fat cut.... His only job is to convince people who don't shit money that he is their friend...
Bill Eaves via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Should grow with time
Anne Miller-Tinsley via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What are muzzies?
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I have Muslim friends and they do not promote such James. But they are Americans.
Heidi Hanson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Well that is a NO BRAINER. He is Black and Texas is home to the KKK. I have lived in Texas all of my 57 years. If you told people they would live in houses made of gold and eat manna from heaven and have their own personal Oil well if they would vote for a Black man they would spit on you. People in Texas LIVE on their hate and prejudice. I know UNION members that would rather cut off their right arm than pull the lever for a Black Democrat. These people that I have had the misfortune to have had to share air with are stupid beyone belief, but have been blessed with lots of natural resources that allow them to still be relatively prosperous IN SPITE of their idiocy.
Jaime R. Carrero via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You don't need a poll to know this.
Robert Adams via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This white voter will be voting against Romney.
Heidi Hanson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Sandy bates Emmons. Good one. I have never heard the term "Pine Curtain" I will have to remember that.
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
As I told the guy earlier Mark and James, the only people the Islamics want to kill more than guys like me are the people who are on this board taking up for them -- those who want to preach "tolerance" and "understanding." Ask Daniel Pearl how "tolerant" and "understanding" this enemy is. Ask the gay men who have been crucified by their gonads in Yemen if they think the Islamists are just "misunderstood." Ask the teenage girls in Britain who've had their faces destroyed with acid for the "crime" of speaking to a non-Muslim male whether they think this is all about oil and corporations.
Loren White via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Careful Brandon ! You used the "Evolution" word and the Teavangelics want creationism in the science class these days.
Russell Stone via Texas Tribune on Facebook
One day soon the tides in Texas will change.
Sergio Hernandez De Santos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why am I not surprised?
Colin Newman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Mitt is nothing if not white. He makes John McCain look like f'ing Shaft.
Jake Lorfing via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hard to believe we Texans elected Ann Richards not that long ago - hope I live long enough to see us swing back in that direction!
Priscilla Renteria via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Conservative, narrow minded Texas. :(
P Kellach Waddle via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Wait A second... someone above says that being Liberal means I want Muslims ( OR ANYONE of ANY social group) killing Americans and dragging them through the streets? Well that's absurd, of course not. And for a bit as I am microwaving my late lunch I thought .. well what the HELL does any of that have to do with anything???? OHHHHH Then remembered, despite his obvious commitment as a Christian , because his middle name is of Middle Eastern heritage, then oh Gee, I forgot, no matter what he says, Obama IS a Muslim. Oh I forgot sorry. And already notwithstanding that no, ALL muslims aren't terrorists-- if we are going by linguistic derivation of middle names above all determining ethnographies -- well since my middle name,. Kellach-- is as celtic/gaelic as it gets-- then obviously no matter what I say or what church I go to -- then obviously I am inarguably .. not a Lutheran, but a Leprechaun :)
Sergio Hernandez De Santos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Regardless, Romney is winning Teaxas, but he's losing the election, so time for Secesion , sr Dave?
Ron Waters via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Behold the power of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and those who fail to seek answers from any other sources!
Jalapeño Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No wonder Texas is #1 in so many things. hahahahaha!
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Bigots are out in force I see.
Les Stevens via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Considering the crap he pulled today, that says a lot about Texas, none of it good.
Sergio Hernandez De Santos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Bill Maher once said: " if a person is Republican, that doesn't necessarily mean they're racist but if a person is racist, then they're probably Republican"
Martina Rogers via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Repukelican criminals supporting other criminals, normal! Obama will win, that is good for America
Carol Hill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hopefully it will jump way up after this fiasco that Obama is essentially supporting.
Rudy Gonzales
Texans are not ignorant, they have been cowed by the TEA-Libertarian-Republican-GOP-Evangelicals in control. This same group has failed to adequately address the Todd Akin Firestorm, the repeated hurdles and road blocks for voting rights, stand silent as soldier in combat is booed on stage by primary contenders and continue to fight the Supreme court sanctioned PPACA. (formerly called RomneyCare, once called ObamaCares and now is the Supreme Court sanctioned Health Care Act)
Romney is good at hiding money in off-shore accounts from the tax man and his church, betting Perry $10,000.00 on a whim and doing 180's on every main topic.
Linda Childs via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dave - You seem to be missing the point. Yes, you fought them. Fantastic for you. What you seem to have forgotten is that just because they happen to be Muslim doesn't mean that they are evil. What about all the f'ed up stuff that happens in THIS country because of religious nuts? Should I hate all Baptists because of the Westboro Baptist Church? (In case you forgot, they're the ones who are picketing soldiers funerals and saying things like "Pray for more dead soldiers" and "Thank God for dead soldiers".) Should I also hate Christians in general because of televangelists like Jim Baker and his fraud and sex scandals? Or what about any number of Christians who see it as perfectly okay, divinely mandated even, to torment and bully, sometimes even to the point of murder or driving the person to suicide, a person just because they're gay? Or black? Or Jewish? Or anything other than what they are? Muslims don't have a corner on crazy. The HUMAN RACE does.
John Hablinski via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That says nothing for which a Texan might feel pride.
Connie Campos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You all are a bunch of racists...I am not voting for Obama not becauseof the color of his skin, but because of his failure to thrive as a president. Are you all missing statistics? 8.9% unemployment, 16 trillion dollars in debt (on loan from China), weak foreign policy (blowing off an ally in Israel), the party not knowing if they want God and Jerusalem back into their platform. I do not our country to become a socialist one where what we have worked for will be freely given away. You all are a scary bunch. And no, I am not white, I am brown and proud to be a Republican!
Kunzang Roesler via Texas Tribune on Facebook
oh beloved Texas, why are you such a blockhead?
gypsy314 ne
It should be more but democrats have awaken the dead and counting the illegal aliens that are pouring in from know telling were.
Michael Peterson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"Thanks to white voters"? Really? It couldn't possibly be because of his blatant FAILURE as a, so called, leader could it? Oh no, it has to be because he isn't 100% white, doesn't it? Of all the things that I do not like about Obama, and the list is very long, color is not even on the list. What we have now is "Jimmy Carter 2.0" and I didn't vote for him either. You people need to wake up and look at just how bad of a job he's doing.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
16 trillion of which 10.6 he inherited and 400 billion per/yr. is interest. Weak foreign policy? Tell that to Osama. Israel needs to stop rattling the saber. Unemployment is high because of rigging laws to favor corporations taking jobs overseas. That was done previous to Obama. God in platform? Whose God? There is that socialist word saying rightie propaganda is working. Now call me a liberal and validate it!
Justin Williams
Dave Munday.
Maybe just maybe you should focus on your run down podunk mewspaper than making over the top bashing of people who you don't like or understand.
Adele Roberson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"which carries out surveys for GOP candidates." Yeah, right! Usual Crap ..... Repyublicans can't buy an independent firm.?