{"id":3634,"date":"2013-10-03T02:25:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2013-10-03T02:25:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:25:40","slug":"let-the-abbott-v-davis-polling-commence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3634","title":{"rendered":"Let the Abbott v. Davis polling commence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The polling has begun and it shows a competitive race for Texas governor next year.<\/p>\n

You know what they say, though, about politics: A week, or month, let alone a year, can be a lifetime or two … or three.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/10\/02\/abbott-leads-davis-eight-points-poll\/<\/p>\n

A Texas Lyceum poll shows Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott leading Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth by 8 percent in a theoretical matchup. Davis is expected Thursday to announce her candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, infusing enthusiasm into a state Democratic Party that has been in a virtual coma for two decades.<\/p>\n

Abbott is the prohibitive favorite to be nominated by the Republicans next spring, although I’m not yet willing to count out my old pal Tom Pauken, a Dallas lawyer and commercial real estate developer (with interests in Amarillo), who’s also running for the GOP governor’s nomination.<\/p>\n

Abbott has lots of money, lots of support among mainstream Republicans and lots of name identification.<\/p>\n

Davis is no slouch in name ID or support among mainstream Democrats. Her problem, though, is that Republicans outnumber Democrats in Texas by a large margin. Therein lies the obstacle she faces.<\/p>\n

The Lyceum poll says Davis does much better among women; she’s in a statistical tie with Abbott. She does better among minorities. Abbott, though, does better among independents.<\/p>\n

I’ve noted before that the governor’s race needs some excitement. Wendy Davis is going to provide it.<\/p>\n

Whether excitement translates to votes, though, will be the operative question going forward.<\/p>\n\n

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The polling has begun and it shows a competitive race for Texas governor next year. You know what they say, though, about politics: A week, or month, let alone a year, can be a lifetime or two … or three. http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/10\/02\/abbott-leads-davis-eight-points-poll\/ A Texas Lyceum poll shows Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott leading Democratic state Sen. … Continue reading Let the Abbott v. Davis polling commence<\/span> →<\/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":[71,2006,4603,4693,4849,5218],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2014-texas-election","tag-greg-abbott","tag-texas-democrats","tag-texas-republicans","tag-tom-pauken","tag-wendy-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","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=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}