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...principle behind them are not. For at its core, it’s about a streak of proud conservatism—or perhaps a certain variation of populism—that still runs deep in this country. (Don’t forget that a December Wall Street Journal/NBC poll showed that more Americans identified with the Tea Party than with either Republicans or Democrats...
...Yale Daily News has even gotten in on the action. After conducting a poll among 1,850 Yale undergraduates, the YDN concluded that, compared to their Harvard counterparts, Yale students have double to triple the sex partners...
...February 2009, Hutchison, who had her eye on going home from Washington to run for governor, held a 56% to 31% lead in the Rasmussen poll over Republican incumbent Governor Rick Perry. A year later, Rasmussen has Perry at 44%, Hutchison at 29% and Debra Medina, a little-known county party chairwoman and a member of the tea party movement, at 16%. Medina, a former nurse who runs a small medical-billing company near Houston, has seen her share in the Rasmussen poll of likely Republican primary voters rise dramatically from 4% in November, with a recent boost from...
...major factor in Hutchison's fall in the polls is widespread discontent with Washington among likely Republican voters. Hutchison's storied 17-year career - she is ranked as one of the 30 most powerful women in the country by Ladies' Home Journal - and her success in bringing home the bacon has become a liability. When poll respondents were asked whether they trust Austin or Washington politicians more when it comes to problem solving, 78% said Austin, and just 3% picked Washington. It is a point Perry pounds home in his ads. (See a story about Rick Perry and the secession...
Until this week's PPP poll, Texas political observers expected Medina only to be a factor that would force a runoff between Perry and Hutchison. (To win outright, a candidate must garner more than 50% of the total vote.) According to Murray, Medina afforded voters an instrument to vent with a protest vote; they would then make their choice between Perry and Hutchison in a runoff. But it now appears Medina may be cutting into Hutchison's vote. Some are now speculating about a Perry-Medina runoff...