Jim Henson and Joshua Blank review Texas attitudes on the issues being promoted to attempted comparative advantage  by the presidential and U.S. Senate campaigns in Texas: immigration & the border, abortion, and transgender rights.

Podcast references 

A post from earlier this week:  "Focusing on the track, not just the horses, as the 2024 race enters the final stretch in Texas."

Issue salience

Immigration

"Thinking about legal immigration, do you think the United States allows too many people to immigrate here from other countries, too few, or about the right amount?"

Abortion

The graphics below are compiled using the results from a set of questions used repeated on several UT/Texas Politics Project polls assessing Texans' views of under what conditions, and at what stage in a pregnancy, abortion should be permitted. You can browse the results and cross tabs for major groups using a pre-loaded result in our search tool.

Transgender issues

U.S. Senate polling tracker

Presidential polling tracker

About the Second Reading podcast. The podcast has been produced by Jim Henson for the Texas Politics Project, with production support from UT's Liberal Arts Development Studio, since 2016. You can find past episodes and subscribe to the Second Reading podcast in Apple Podcasts and Spotify.