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Poll: Perry Leads Hutchison In Texas Gubernatorial Primary

Eric Kleefeld | November 13, 2009, 10:24AM

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A new Rasmussen poll of Texas has Gov. Rick Perry ahead in his Republican primary in 2010, in which he is being challenged by U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

The numbers: Perry 46%, Hutchison 35%, with a ±3.5% margin of error. Two months ago, when Hutchison had officially launched her campaign and was touring the state, she had a 40%-38% lead.

One key question should give Hutchison pause: "Should Kay Bailey Hutchison remain in her position as senator while she is running for Governor?" The answer here is Yes 60%, No 26%. Hutchison has indicated that she will resign from the Senate -- a move that could possibly be hurting her.

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danp

November 13, 2009 10:36 AM

Hutchison has indicated that she will resign from the Senate -- a move that could possibly be hurting her.

Apparently, a lot of Texans don't realize you don't need to actually show up in the Senate to vote NO.

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johnmccsf

November 13, 2009 12:08 PM

Said it weeks ago - Kay Bailey's ready for the Ann Richards Fork

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johnmccsf

November 13, 2009 12:39 PM

My brother who's misfortune it is to actually live in Texas, demurs.

He believes - hope against hope - that emerging talk of scandals will blossom and bury him

Wishful thinking

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Matt Jones

November 13, 2009 2:26 PM in reply to johnmccsf

If the fact that he willfully had an innocent man executed, then intentionally interfered in the investigation of that execution, doesn't work - what will? Will it take the proverbial "live boy or dead girl"-type scandal to get people to pay attention?

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SilvestriWoman

November 13, 2009 5:46 PM in reply to Matt Jones

That means nothing in TX - they LOVE the death penalty. Remember KBH's reaction when the New Yorker piece broke Willingham story wide? (It was front-page news here in Chicago five - yes, five - years ago. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0412090169dec09,0,1173806.story) That this news endangered the death penalty - a BAD thing.

The deeper problem in TX is that, so far, there is no strong candidate to run as a Dem. Mom in San Antonio - a very active woman - had never heard of Tom Schieffer. Of course, the other candidate's Kinky Friedman. She does not believe a Dem can be elected governor in TX.

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Middleclassvotingbloc

November 13, 2009 1:03 PM

If the Ramussen Poll is all you got for this story, forget about it. Don't believe any poll by the far right wingers at Ramussen, there polls says only what they want it to say for the far right wing.

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Middleclassvotingbloc

November 13, 2009 1:06 PM

I am suprise that TPM still place such creditability in
Rasmussen Polls that they would site it for a story.

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Middleclassvotingbloc

November 13, 2009 1:07 PM

Kay don't believe this Poll.

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ogliberal

November 13, 2009 2:41 PM

Well, it makes sense. Hutchinson wants to kill babies and she has a vagina. The only vaginas accepted in this party have to be a) ignorant, b) crazy, and c) from a cold climate. Kay fails all three tests.

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