Overall, Texas voters — by a slight majority — believe the federal government should continue oversight of the state’s changes in election laws, according to the October 2012 University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. But partisans are split.
Jim Henson
Jim Henson directs the Texas Politics Project and teaches in the Department of Government at The University of Texas, where he also received a doctorate. He helped design public interest multimedia for the Benton Foundation in Washington, D.C., in the late 1990s and has written about politics in general-interest and academic publications. He also serves as associate director of the College of Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services unit at UT, where he has helped produce several award-winning instructional media projects. In 2008, he and Daron Shaw, a fellow UT government professor, established the first statewide, publicly available internet survey of public opinion in Texas using matched random sampling. He lives in Austin, where he also serves as a member of the City of Austin Ethics Review Commission.
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Demographics
The Polling Center: Cruz Beats Drum on Immigration
If Ted Cruz seems to be marching out of step with GOP leaders attempting to lower the volume on the party’s immigration rhetoric, results from the last UT/Texas Tribune poll suggest the drumbeat he’s listening to is the one being played by his voters.
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Demographics
The Polling Center: The GOP’s Sticky Immigration Problem
A proposed federal immigration reform poses a test for Texas Republicans: Their leaders, compared to politicians from other states, tend to be more moderate. But those leaders stand at the front of a GOP that is hostile to some of the proposal’s key points.
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Energy
The Polling Center: Lawmakers Fret About Water, but the Public Doesn’t
Water has emerged as the top infrastructure issue before the 83rd Legislature — an issue that appears to be more important to lawmakers than to most of the people they represent.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Out: A Large Difference of Opinion
Ask the Texas public a question, and then ask the insiders in Texas politics and government the same question. The gaps are huge.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Out: Insiders and Voters Don’t See Eye to Eye
Texas voters and the people who work in and around government don’t agree on education quality and funding, tax pledges, or even the most important problems facing the state.
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Eight Months of the U.S. Senate Race
Before Tuesday’s election, here’s a look at the last eight months of polling in the Republican race for U.S. Senate.
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State Government
The Conservative Core and the 2012 Primary Elections
The February 2012 University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll shows a riptide of very conservative opinion is exerting a strong pull on state politics.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Out: The Insiders vs. the Voters
On many issues, the insiders we survey every week are very different from the voters we surveyed for the University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll in February. But sometimes, they sing in harmony.
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State Government
Yeah, He Lost, But…
Rick Perry is still the Republican governor of a strongly Republican state. He controls the executive branch, maintains strong ties with business, has relatively weak opponents, and has run circles around the media.
