Poll shows Perry slipping (Texas)

[Judi Lynn]

May 12, 2005, 12:42AM

Poll shows Perry slipping
Hutchison has strongest rating of Texas politicans
By POLLY ROSS HUGHES
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry's job approval rating, after rebounding earlier this year, slipped to 45 percent in a new poll released Wednesday.


Perry's job approval hit 51 percent earlier this year, his highest showing in three years of polling.

The latest poll of 1,000 adult Texans was conducted between April 14 and May 4. It has a margin of error of three percentage points.

The governor also had one of the highest negative ratings — 35 percent — of state officials in the poll.
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3178365
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[mitchtv]

1. What? hasn't he executed enough people?

or is he soft on gays?

[bluestateguy]

2. It doesn't matter

This is a Republican state. Elections in this state are decided in the Republican primary. Texans will not, WILL NOT, consider a Democrat as an alternative for a statewide office. Maybe Kay Bailey could take Perry in a primary, but then she would easily win in November. Furthermore, Democrats in this state have such a poor bench and so little money that they won't be able to find a credible candidate. If anybody here actually thinks a Democrat can be elected governor of Texas, then I sugget they get out a little more in the Lone Star State and take a look around. Sorry for the pessimism, but after the wipeout of the "dream team" in 2002 I am now convinced that Democrats may not win another statewide race here for another 20 years.

[Skittles]

3. yup, that's the way it is looking

it's a pretty sorry state of affairs in Texas when that cheerleading republican whore Kay Baily is considered "popular".

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Hutchison: Living Republican Fossil

I'm afraid that even if Kay Bailey Hutchison runs for Governor--and wins--she'd be a sort of living fossil. She'd be an R with some notions about fiscal responsibility, accountability, and seems to be possessed of the quaint notion that public schools actually ought to perform better--rather than as a pool of taxpayer money to be looted for the benefit of sectarian private religious schools. That sort of R is nearly extinct in the corridors of Texas Republican power.

The trouble is she's still a Republican and has been voting for corporate cronyism almost as much as her Enron-beneficiary colleague Senator John Cornyn. As a Democrat, the best I can say of her is that she's the best of the stacked deck of bad cards the Republicans and their "conservative" allies would deal us from their stacked deck.

I want a new deal and new dealers.

[Bridget Burke]

5. She's always been "better than the other Senator"

The heinous Phil Gram & the new guy always made her look good in comparison.

A recent Texas Monthly editorial was quite miffed with her for not declaring her candidacy yet. Actually, they were miffed that she dare suggest she might run. It's feared that an ugly primary fight might weaken the Republican party in Texas. Let's hope....