Keyword: General Election

Just What is a "Likely Voter"?

| By: Joshua Blank, PhD

In a poll of potential voters, how should we go about determining what the electorate might look like on Election Day?

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Perry Campaigned Against Obama Instead of White

| By: Jim Henson, PhD

No campaign postmortem will be complete without noting the huge role played by Barack Obama in the 2010 governor's race.

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Six Points Separate Perry and White — or Is It More?

| By: Jim Henson, PhD

Six points separate Rick Perry and Bill White, but that's not all there is to it: The pattern of partisan preferences evident in the latest polling suggests that the Republican Party still holds a substantial baseline advantage over the Democrats in Texas.

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Is the Texas Governor's Race as Close as It Looks?

| By: Daron Shaw

Make no mistake: A Democrat running in a statewide race in Texas who is not losing by double-digits is doing relatively well. But this raises the larger question: Can Bill White actually win?

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Perry's Lead Over White Is Not From the Big Cities

| By: Adam Myers

Bill White’s problem is an “everywhere else” problem, which is only partly rural in nature.

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