Posted on 05/23/2006 9:20:02 AM PDT by LdSentinal
Analysis: In an election for Texas Governor held today, 5/22/06, Republican incumbent Rick Perry defeats 3 challengers, according to a SurveyUSA election poll conducted for KEYE-TV Austin and WOAI-TV San Antonio. Perry leads Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, who is running as an Independent, 41% to 20%. Democrat Chris Bell gets 18% and Independent "Kinky" Friedman gets 16%. 1% prefer some other candidate. 3% are undecided. Since an identical SurveyUSA poll on 4/26/06, Perry has gained 2 points, Strayhorn has lost 5 points, Bell has gained 3 points, and Friedman is unchanged. There are 5 1/2 months until the 11/7/06 election. Perry's 41% support closely matches his 40% approval rating. If one of the Independents, Strayhorn or Friedman, cannot maintain support through a long campaign, then Bell or the other Independent may pick up enough votes to approach Perry, but Perry must still be favored as long as he has more than one serious opponent. Asked of 605 Likely Voters Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 4.1%
If the election for Governor of Texas were today, and you were standing in the voting booth right now, who would you vote for? Democrat Chris Bell? Independent "Kinky" Friedman? Republican Rick Perry? Independent Carole Keeton Strayhorn? Or some other candidate?
18% Bell (D)
16% Friedman (I)
41% Perry (R)
20% Strayhorn (I)
1% Other
3% Undecided
I would love to see a run off between Perry and Kinky. Perry would win but damn it would be an entertaining election.
I'm not entertained by Kinky. I think he's intentionally making fools of Texas voters as a way to raise his profile for future books and public speaking gigs.
If they prefer the "California" way, perhaps they should be shipped back.
sinkspur, you are wasting your time in this discussion. You did notice this:
Hydroshock
Since May 18, 2006
didn't you?
I'm guessing one of the McClellan boys.
If I lived there, I would vote for Kinky.
I didn't look at the sign-up date.
Texans are not fooled. They know this school funding resolution, which has evaded Texas legislatures for over a decade, is a big deal. They're also aware of tort reform, and Republicans know all about the six additional seats the GOP picked up through redistricting and Perry's efforts to force the Democrats into three special sessions.
This won't even be a race anymore by August.
This is my thinking too. Huge surplus and they're raising taxes. That's rat behavior, no other way to slice it.
Keep in mind that Perry up until the early 90's was a democrat. I wish we had a conservative to vote for.
"What else would you like to cut?"
Lets start with any state or federal benefit for any illegal alien.
Then cut the staff of the Highway department by about 50%
Mostly the huge throngs of useless engineers that do NO engineering work, and draw salaries in the range of 100,000
per year. Then start looking at the overlapping levels of bureaucracy in all the agencys. Most have commissioners, bureau chiefs, asst bureau chiefs, executive officers, assistant executive officers etc. that are all appointed by the administration as political payoff. Most have little or no knowledge of the function of the agencys they "work" for.
All have salaries in the 100k range.
As a former state employee, I have a good understanding of how most state agencys are structured.
I agree with you.
I've never been a Perry fan, but the redistricting plus his willingness to to at least pander to the social conservatives means my vote is locked for him this time.
Kinky's probably close to his peak numbers. Bell's going to get enough votes from the Democrat core in Dallas, Houston and the Valley to keep Strayhorn from being a threat.
There should be an edict here that anytime the hunky Gov. Perry is mentioned, a picture of him be posted as well (sort of like in the Maureen Dowd threads where pix of Catherine Zeta-Jones get posted).
I did not mention you. Just him. Raising taxes like he did is in my mind not conservative. I think he is a politician first, last and always. He will do whatever he thinks can keep him in power. He is not alone in that in Austin and I am talking about both parties. There were better ways to fund schools but that would have meant going against the lobbiest with he appears unwilling to do.
Keep in mind something that was said, on camera by a state senator doing the special sessions last year. He was asked why a bill had not been passed to fund schools then. He said, "We could not come up with a bill that the lobbiest would approve of." That is but one of many reasons I have a low opinion of most of the politicans in Austin.
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