{"id":2246,"date":"2013-07-04T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2013-07-04T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T14:39:52","slug":"poll-reveals-steep-hill-for-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2246","title":{"rendered":"Poll reveals steep hill for Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, is thinking about a statewide campaign for public office. She might want to think again about running for governor.<\/p>\n<p>A Public Policy Polling survey released the other day indicates she&#8217;d lose big to Gov. Rick Perry if the governor decides to seek re-election. The PPP poll &#8212; which usually leans Democratic &#8212; says Perry would defeat Davis by 14 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve already gone on record as predicting that Perry won&#8217;t run for re-election. I&#8217;m still thinking he&#8217;s going to bow out and concentrate on building a 2016 campaign for <em>(gulp!)<\/em> president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>State Attorney General Greg Abbott, another Republican, is waiting in the gubernatorial wings and he, too, will be difficult to beat, even for a Democrat who won a lot of fans over her anti-abortion bill filibuster in the Texas Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Many dreamers are hoping for a time when Texas becomes politically competitive. I&#8217;m one of them. But the PPP poll indicates that time hasn&#8217;t yet arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, is thinking about a statewide campaign for public office. She might want to think again about running for governor. A Public Policy Polling survey released the other day indicates she&#8217;d lose big to Gov. Rick Perry if the governor decides to seek re-election. The PPP poll &#8212; which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll reveals steep hill for Davis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}