Election 2010: Texas Republican Primary for Governor (Perry 44%, Hutchison 29%, Medina 16%)

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 2-2-10 | Scotte Rasmussen

[icwhatudo]

Incumbent Rick Perry's lead over Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison has grown a little bigger in the race for this year's Republican gubernatorial nomination in Texas. Tea Party activist Debra Medina also has gained ground, and her gains appear to come at the expense of Hutchison.

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey of likely Republican Primary voters in Texas finds Perry leading Hutchison 44% to 29%, with Medina at 16%.

Medina has gained four points since the previous survey while Hutchison has lost four points. Perry's support is little changed from a month ago.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

As a Texas resident, I’ll take Perry. The Texas budget is in decent shape and he’s actually governed pretty conservatively since the pap test fiasco at the beginning of his second term. Perry has also provided a lot of moral support to the Tea Party.

[boxlunch]

Libertarians, they are for no borders at all.

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Is that correct? That is very eye opening, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the good info, also exposing their lack of pro life support, and for ending the drug war, I didn’t know that either.

[Eaker]

“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?”

Good post!

[pkajj]

All your documentation aside, please don’t forget an act of extreme political courage in 2003. Rick Perry called one special session after another to bring about a mid-decade congressional redistricting, in an effort to correct the bizarre gerrymandering that had been put into place by ultra liberal Democrat Martin Frost.

Until then, Texans in the aggregate had been giving 60+% of their vote to GOP congressional candidates, but only wound up with 40% of the actual congressional seats. Perry stood firm in the face of a media onslaught never before seen in Texas. On two occasions, the Democrat state reps and senators left the state to prevent the state legislature from having a quorum. (State reps fled to Oklahoma, Senators went to New Mexico).

Once having succeeded in redrawing the lines, Texas replaced six Democrats with conservative Republicans, incluing Ted Poe, Louie Gomert and Randy Neubauer. (We still need to defeat Chet Edwards, which may happen this year).

I will always appreciate this act of political courage and resolve by Perry.

[Retired COB]

I don’t believe the NRA would support a RINO

Don't kid yourself.

I belong to the NRA and support their cause, but they are a single-issue organization. They could care less on abortion, homosexual special rights, fiscal policy, free trade, or any one of our other platform issues.

I consider what the NRA has to say about a candidate, but I look at the overall picture. In this case they're saying KBH is OK on the gun issue as well, so their recommendation shouldn't be a factor.

On the surface, I'd take the Tea Party candidate with Rick Perry as a second choice. I'd leave it blank before I'd vote for KBH.

[CPT Clay]

That is my thinking as well.

Medina’s answer on e verify extinguished any thought of voting for her in my mind.

[Paul Ross]

Don't kid yourself

Bump. You're right. I have been chastising management at the NRA for decades for their insane policies of supporting Tax-o-crats who disregard the Constitution routinely...if they blow off the rest of the constituition, how long before they get around to fully destroy the 2nd Amendment which has been under fire for over a century? And also, btw, TAX away our guns... "legally."

[Stat-boy]

Just some background:

The NRA (my wife and I are members) will endorse any incumbent with a voting record in line with the NRA objectives. The NRA will do this consistently and reliably, and this policy is well known by politicians.

For example, the NRA endorsed Nick Lampson (a Democrat) over Pete Olson in the Texas Congressional race over Tom Delay’s old seat. Why? Because when Lampson was in Congress he had a pro gun rights voting record (liberal on everything else).

[Stat-boy]

Good points; and we should give Perry credit for other things such as his very pro gun rights record.

[cizinec]

I don’t believe the NRA would support a RINO

So you're okay with the legislation Perry wanted pass requiring all girls get vaccinated for HPV? You are for the TTC and the selling of our toll roads to a Spanish company? You are for the taking of private property to give to foreign companies to build roads?

Wait, did you say you were, again, a conservative or a liberal?

The NRA is concerned with a single issue. Don't pretend like they are the ultimate teller of RINOs. They gave Hutchison an A+.

[cizinec]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOWKs-wC2ek

Perry acts like he’s the Putin of Texas.

So Medina has an ad in Spanish. At least she didn’t *sell* the toll roads to freaking Spain. Wake up, man. Perry is selling our infrastructure to foreign companies, and you’re worried about an *ad* in Spanish?

[wild74]

Perry has been a very good governor and deserves another 4 years, what he doesn't deserve is KBH under minding him. Medina is a non issue. She needs to quit and run as a libertarian with her views.There are some issues with Perry I don't like but nobody has ever accused me of being liberal.My parents voted for Goldwater in 64 and George Wallace in 68 and I am chip off the old block...lol

[GunRunner]

I will always remember that act of political courage, and rewarded Perry with my vote twice for doing so.

But this is 7 years later, and he's the inferior candidate to Medina.

The business margins tax and the HPV vaccine were two things among several that tipped the scale.

[beanshirts]

Awesome news.

At 16% and trending up, and at 29% and trending down... Debra is now in a realistically decent position to pass Kay by the end of the month and earn a spot in the runoff... especially as the segment of Kay’s supporters who are more anti-Perry voters than they are pro-Hutchinson voters sense that the momentum is with Debra and that she’s horse to pick if you want to deny Rick a 4th term.

Nonetheless, if my instincts are correct, Debra should close well in the final four weeks just at Scott Brown and Doug Hoffman did in their races.

[Envisioning]

I am voting for Medina in the primary.

Perry and Hutchinson are politics as usual.

I AM TIRED OF POLITICS AS USUAL.

Medina Ping!

[patriot08]

For starters look up Debra Medina's column 'Latinos and the GOP'

'It’s a shame isn’t it, that Republicans continue to ignore Hispanics especially here in Texas?' Debra Medina

'Ignore them', Mrs Medina? Since when? What more do you want? Or shouldn't we ask?

Medina ad:

“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)

She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”

No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.

She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.

So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.

No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.

The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties

*Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress “One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422

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