Perry Looks Safe for Reelection
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 29th, 2010 4:40 am by HL
Perry Looks Safe for Reelection
A new Public Policy Polling survey in Texas finds Gov. Rick Perry (R) leading challenger Bill White (D) by nine points in the race for re-election, 53% to 44%.
Key finding: “For White it may be a classic case of the right candidate running in the wrong cycle. He has strong favorability numbers at a 46/39 spread while Perry can only break even on his approval rating at 45% giving him good marks and 45% bad ones. White leads with independent voters 50-44… Ultimately though to win as a Democrat in Texas you’re going to have to win a fair amount of crossover support from Republican voters and in the end White just wasn’t able to do it. Just 11% of GOP voters are planning to support him, a number equivalent to the 11% of Democrats who plan to vote for Perry.”
Dead Heat in Washington
A new SurveyUSA poll in Washington finds a dead heat in the race for U.S. Senate, with challenger Dino Rossi (R) and Sen. Patty Murray (D) each getting the support of 47% of survey respondents.
“With the margin so close, it may very well come down to who bothers to vote. And at this rate, we may or may not know the outcome on election night.”
