RASMUSSEN POLL: 375 TEXANS WOULD VOTE TO STAY IN USA (That is 75% of the 500 survey participants)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 04-17-2009 | DRUDGE

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Texas Survey of 500 Likely Voters

Conducted April 16, 2009

By Rasmussen Reports

[pepperdog]

Don’t you be sending them up here to Oklahoma! We’ll either go with Texas or form another Indian Nation. By the by we already have a start on the Indian Nation thingy. Just look at the signs along the interstates, entering one Nation leaving another. There might be an out for us here.

[Windflier]

Texans do not want to secede from the Union. They love the United States of America. However, the nature of Texans is to do what must be done.

That's pretty much how I see it, too. People here love this country with an uncommon fervor, but will "do what must be done", if it comes to it.

[Windflier]

Better to take back our country than leave it.

I wholeheartedly agree.

I see a lot of angry people on their high horses, cavalierly suggesting that we throw our great nation into the dustbin of history. That wounds me deeply.

Those advocating secession need to also consider the unintended consequences of political separation from the US. There are many.

[sourcery]

The poll is asking the wrong question. The right question is whether or not Texas has the right to secede. A good followup question would be whether or not the necessary conditions justifying succession are close to being satisfied.

[RED SOUTH]

The U.S. Constitution does not expressly recognize or deny a right of secession. Accordingly, the argument for a right of unilateral secession begins (and pretty much ends) with a claim about the very nature of the Constitution.

That document, by the terms of its Article VII, only obtained legal force through the ratification by nine states, and then only in the states so ratifying it. Because the Constitution derived its initial force from the voluntary act of consent by the sovereign states, secessionists argued, a state could voluntarily and unilaterally withdraw its consent from the Union.

In this view, the Constitution is a kind of multilateral treaty, which derives its legal effect from the consent of the sovereign parties to it. Just as sovereign nations can withdraw from a treaty, so too can the sovereign states withdraw from the Union.

[sourcery]

Yes, I agree. But that's not the point. The issue here is what the voters of Texas believe, and how to interpret their answer to the question asked by the poll. Many who believe in the right to secede may not feel that Texas should do so—yet. But may nevertheless feel that the conditions necessary to justify secesseion are not that far off. But we don't know, because the poll did not ask the right questions.

[SuperLuminal]

I’d bet that 75% of the 75% were illegal immigrants.