In this week's Second Reading podcast, Jim Henson and Josh Blank talk about the politics of Gov. Abbott's latest executive order prohibiting businesses from implement vaccine requirements on employees or customers.
In the latest Second Reading podcast, Jim Henson and Joshua Blank look at Texans' assessment of the Texas Legislature, the agenda pursued by the legislature during the second special session, and institutional state-of-play as the legislature takes a break before coming back into session for redistricting (and whateever else the governor adds to the agenda).
Jim Henson and Joshua Blank look at the big picture of mood of the state painted in the results of the just-released Texas Politics Project Poll, conducted August 20-30.
As summer winds down amidst the Delta variant surge and multiple contentious special sessions of the Texas Legislature, we'll be releasing new Texas polling data later this week. We'll let people know we've published the results via our email list - sign up below if you're not already on the list.
In this week's Second Reading podcast, Jim Henson talks with reporter James Barragán of The Texas Tribune about some of the big issues still before the 87th Texas Legislature – guns, elections, utilities, and more – and about what the mood has been in the Capitol during this very unusual legisla
In this week’s Second Reading podcast, Jim Henson & Josh Blank consider State Senator Don Huffines’ just-announced primary challenge to Gov. Greg Abbott as an entry point to a larger discussion of axes of conflict among Texas Republicans.
In this week's Second Reading Podcast, Jim Henson and Josh Blank discuss Governor Greg Abbott's State of the State address and the five emergency items the governor unveiled.
In a post-election week Second Reading, Jim Henson and Josh Blank talk about what went wrong in 2020 presidential polling in the US and in Texas, some possible explanations, and what might be done moving forward.
In the final Second Reading podcast before Election Day, JIm Henson and Josh Blank round up some of the prominent topics of media coverage of the Texas election, including the increasing importance of indepdendents in a more competitive Texas, the difficulties of polling Hispanic voters, the Texas suburbs, and interpreting all that early voting.
