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January 23, 2025 | By:
Texas Politics Project
Jim Henson and Josh Blank consider the ascension of Dustin Burrows as Houses Speaker, and revisit UT/Texas Politics polling on Texans' attitudes toward the emerging Trump agenda as the president issues a flurry of executive orders.
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January 16, 2025 | By:
Texas Politics Project
The UT/Texas Politics Project Poll Team discuss what their December polling in Texas tells us about public opinion and potential cross-currents buffeting the Trump administration & Congressional Republicans in 2025 - with James Henson, Daron Shaw, and Joshua Blank.
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December 05, 2024 | By:
Texas Politics Project
In a podcast recording hours before strong indications that Dade Phelan is withdrawing from consideration, Jim Henson and Josh Blank join the ongoing speculation about whether Dade Phelan will remain Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
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November 21, 2024 | By:
Texas Politics Project
Jim Henson & Joshua Blank look at what UT/Texas Politics Project polling data can (and can’t) tell us about the big Latino vote for Donald Trump in Texas.
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November 06, 2024 | By:
Texas Politics Project
Jim Henson and Joshua Blank take a morning-after look at the outcome of the 2024 election in Texas.
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November 01, 2024 | By:
Texas Politics Project
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.
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October 30, 2024 | By:
Texas Politics Project
Check back for updates on all non-partisan polling of the US Senate race race between incumbent U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Colin Allred.
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October 30, 2024 | By:
Jim Henson,
Joshua Blank
In both the Presidential and U.S. Senate races, efforts by the candidates to portray their opponents as extremists while presenting themselves as comparatively moderate and bipartisan has had mixed effects. Overall, this messaging is resonating more with candidates’ partisans in the state than with their opponents’ base voters, making these tactics likely to be more successful at mobilizing partisans than at persuading the opposition's voters that their own candidate is too radical. Nor do the ostensible efforts to scare independents with claims of ideological extremism seem to be having the effects the campaigns desire.
A closer look at the University of Texas / Texas Politics illuminates how the efforts at contrasting moderation with extremism have fared – but also suggests that the surprising attraction of the middle in Texas politics is likely to be fleeting once the U.S. Senate race is settled and behind us.
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October 29, 2024 | By:
Jim Henson,
Joshua Blank
The closer we get to Election Day, the more attention gets paid to horse race results in polling – often at the expense of a deeper look into what polling can tell us about the context of that election. Much of University of Texas/Texas Politics Project polling conducted during the election season aims to illuminate the context of the election and, maybe even more important now that our polling project is well into its second decade, the arc of the ongoing developments in Texas politics.We’ve gathered some of the results from the recently released October poll (conducted from the 2nd through the 10th) to give some more depth to the trial ballots – and to capture some of the contextual elements of the political universe in Texas as the 2024 election enters its final days. (And, to be as gentle as possible, to start thinking about the upcoming legislative session and what promises to be a very active and interesting round of elections for statewide offices in 2026.)
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October 23, 2024 | By:
Texas Politics Project
The UT/Texas Politics Project Poll team talk about what the October 2024 UT/TxPP poll tells us about the election in Texas and the broader trajectory of Texas electoral politics.
