Posted on 08/28/2006 5:25:11 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Online nature of poll raises questions but gives life to Bell Campaign
Although its methodology is among the most questionable of the national pollsters watching Texas' elections, the most today's Wall Street Journal/Zogby Poll has some startling results.
According to WSJ/Zogby, Governor Perry's lead has dropped to 34.8%.
The biggest beneficiary is Democrat Chris Bell who has surged into second place at 23.1%. "All we need to beat Rick Perry is 35%, and the way Rick Perry is dropping and Chris Bell is rising, it's clear that the only realistic way to get a new governor is to get behind Chris Bell," said Bell campaign spokesperson Heather Guntert.
Independent Kinky Friedman is in third with 22.7%.
The stunner in the poll has Carole Strayhorn down to single digits with 9.6%
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Poll Ping!
Zogby hasn't had one right since he fluked his way to the spotlight. He still wouldn't have been noticed if Rush Limbaugh hadn't highlited him.
"Zogby, Rent Our Credibility for Your Bogus Poll... (We'll never tell!)"
Rick Perry will win in a Landslide and be nominated for President in 2008!
Ping!
Zogby's brother is on the board of directors of CAIR, and the family is strongly in favor of Arabic Muslim causes. IOW, they're biased to the max.
I don't know about Rick Perry being nominated for POTUS in 2008, but he is going to win in a landslide in Texas. In fact, the Democrat Party will not win one important statewide office. "Grandma" Strayhorn and Kinky Freidman are not wrapped too tight, and are going nowhere at the end of the day!!!
Perry's not popular in Texas, and the Trans-Texas Corridor is not popular. The thing that might save Perry is that Kinky, "One nutty grandma", and the Rat are all opposed to the Corridor, and may split the anti-Perry vote. Perry can't back down on the Corridor, either. Rumor is that a bunch of the big money boys have purchased thousands of acres of land in the corridor path, and are already counting up the profits when the state buys the land back from them at five times retail value. Look for Perry to get major league money into his coffers and a huge campaign push in the next few months.
NO Granny!!!!
Perry all the way.
1. The plan is WAY too conceptual at this point to elicit a lot of passion.
2. I think people are in favor of the TTC on a conceptual basis - they might think, and vote, differently when they find out the exact route and when they actually have to start shelling out some money.
3. The demographics overwhelm most first-tier issues and ALL second-tier issues, such as the TTC.
This is a conservative state. There is one moderate (Perry) and there are three liberals in this race (Kinky, Grandma, and whats-his-name).
Perry cruises.
I think Perry will win, but it's only because Texas is a conservative state, and he's as close to a conservative as there is running for governor. There's not any enthusiasm for him, though.
BTW, very good work on the profile page. Beautiful photos.
Bad idea to listen to and buy any 'rumors' from the anti-TTC groups, they are a pack of liars. TXDOT's preferred alternative for the TTC is to use the already under construction SH130 from Georgetown to Seguin, and the existing I-10 from there into San Antonio. Last week TXDOT agreed to change the alignment in and around DFW to a new one originally suggested by the local DFW MPO, NCTCOG and championed by DFW area municipalities and reps. This will shift the plan all the way to south of Hillsboro and use almost completely already planned roads from Midlothian/Mansfield north to Gainesville. However there are not planning to build the section north to Oklahoma until after 2025, same with the San Antonio-Laredo section, where TXDOT plans on using the I-35 ROW.
So unless these 'rumored' fatcats have bought up land between north of Georgetown and south of Hillsboro, there wasn't any land to buy other than an area that just got shifted away from. And since all costs for property acquisition and construction will be paid for by the toll company, not the state, any increased land costs will cut into their profits. But isn't the rumor accusing Cintra (the toll company) as being one of the fatcats? So they are supposed to be in a conspiracy where other fatcats will make a killing that takes the money from their profits? Getting a bit complicated there.
The truth being that the rumor is 99.9% certain to be BS.
Ah, so first he states Allen is trailing the challenger.
Now he states Perry is close to losing.
Zogby is intent to never resurrect his credibility, isn't he? Well, I guess he has no reason to when people keep paying him to produce results. Even if they've been hugely wrong in past.
I'm not really insulted on behalf of Perry and Allen, but rather that Zogby thinks we're imbeciles and will buy this. He's stretching too far.
Forgot to mention that since the TTC-35 has only been narrowed down to a 10-mile study corridor, while the actual ROW will be mostly 800' wide (TXDOT says that the 1200' width will only be acquired for short special segments, such as for mitigation or interchanges), just 1/66th the width of the study area, buying up land now is quite a gamble. Maybe near speculated interchanges, but otherwise fronting the TTC won't offer much opportunity to profit from the road, since there won't be frontage roads.
Paint the House maroon maybe ;-)
Gig 'Em Aggies... beat the HELL outta The Citadel (this coming Saturday night).
One tough grandma = a big bag of nothin'.
Phil Gramm will be his VP.
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