For this week’s nonscientific survey of government and political insiders, we asked about primary elections, who benefits from delays in those dates, and what will happen to voter turnout.
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Inside Intelligence is the insider’s poll historically featured in Texas Weekly, our former political newsletter. It’s a survey of political, lobby, and government insiders on issues of the day. These days, you can find it in our new insiders’ newsletter, The Blast.
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Inside Intelligence: The Primaries
In this weeks’ survey of government and business insiders, we asked about the primaries and how delays and splits might affect the results of this year’s elections.
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Inside Intelligence: What Would It Take…
In this week’s nonscientific survey of political and government insiders, we asked why Ron Paul isn’t more successful, how long it will take for Texas Democrats to compete and what issues will rule the spring primaries.
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Inside Intelligence: Trying to Catch On
The insiders think Ron Paul’s biggest obstacle is Ron Paul, are pessimistic about Texas Democrats, and predict Democratic primaries focused on education and Republican primaries focused on spending and taxes.
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Inside Intelligence: About That Homecoming…
In this week’s nonscientific survey of political and government insiders, we asked what Gov. Rick Perry’s re-entry into state politics will be like, and whether they think he’ll remain in office or quit early.
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Inside Intelligence: Coming Home
Now what? This week, we asked the insiders what Gov. Rick Perry’s reentry into state politics will be like (and, it should be noted, collected these answers before the governor dropped out of the presidential race on Thursday morning).
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Inside Intelligence: About That Primary Election…
For our latest nonscientific survey of government and political insiders, we asked about the sliding primary dates, who it helps and hurts, and whether there is still a need for federal review of the state’s political maps.
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Inside Intelligence: Those Elusive Elections
For this week’s edition of Inside Intelligence, we asked about election delays, redistricting maps, who is hurt and helped by delays, and whether Texas still ought to be covered by the Voting Rights Act.
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Inside Intelligence: Heading South…
For our latest nonscientific survey of political and governmental insiders, we waited until the morning after the Iowa caucuses to see what the insiders think Gov. Rick Perry should do after finishing fifth there.
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Inside Intelligence: Should He Stay or Should He Go?
For the first Inside Intelligence survey of 2012, we waited until the morning after the Iowa caucuses to see what Texans thought Gov. Rick Perry should do after finishing fifth there.