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The race for the Republican nomination for governor is getting tighter – according to a new poll released by the Texas Tribune and the University of Texas. TPR’s David Martin Davies has the story.
February 12, 2010 ·The poll shows that likely Republican voters favor incumbent Rick Perry, but not so many that he is guaranteed to avoid a run-off with either U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison or teaparty favorite Debora Medina.
“I think a lot of people are generally surprised that Medina is this strong,” said Ross Ramsey, managing editor of the Texas Tribune.
Here are the numbers – Perry, forty-five percent, Hutchison, twenty-one percent, and Medina, nineteen percent.
The data was collected before Medina’s gaff on the Glenn Beck radio program where she was ambivalent about denying there was U.S. government involvement in 9-11.
“So, we don’t have any numbers after that to know whether that’s just a headline, or if that’s the sound of Debora Medina going into a pothole,” said Ramsey.
The poll also shows former Houston Mayor Bill White way out in front in the democratic primary for governor, but White falls short when paired against any of the GOP candidates.
Still Ramsey says it’s too early to draw conclusions about the general election.
“We don’t know what kind of campaign Bill White and Rick Perry would run against each other and what we are going to think of them individually in 8 or 9 months,” he said.
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