Post Date: March 2014

Legal Pot in Texas? Snuff the Thought

| By: Jim Henson, PhD and Joshua Blank, PhD

Only 28 percent of Texans say they are opposed to legalization of marijuana for any reason. Most would OK it for medicinal use, and nearly half would approve it for recreational use. But the state's most conservative voters are not likely to go along.

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Does the Tea Party Really Want to Limit Government?

| By: Jim Henson, PhD and Joshua Blank, PhD

It might be tempting to romanticize the Tea Party as something distinct from the Republican Party, but poll data suggests that Tea Party voters would support using government power to enact unquestionably conservative policies.

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Poll Findings vs. Election Results

| By: Daron Shaw and Jim Henson, PhD and Joshua Blank, PhD

In several races, Tuesday's election results didn't match the findings of the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll two weeks earlier. What happened?

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