TX-Texas Research Institute/Emerson College: Abbott+7

[Tender Branson]

494 likely voters, March 7-12:

49% Greg Abbott (R)
42% Wendy Davis (D)

Is your opinion of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott generally favorable or unfavorable?

49-33 favorable

Is your opinion of Texas State Senator Wendy Davis generally favorable or unfavorable?

41-45 unfavorable

http://texasresearchinstitute.org/poll/davis-closes-gap-single-digits-first-post-primary-poll

[Tender Branson]

Emerson College is a relatively new pollster, but they had the best VA poll last November, showing McAuliffe winning by 2:

https://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/GOVERNOR/2013/polls.php?fips=51

[pbrower2a]

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http://texasresearchinstitute.org/poll/davis-closes-gap-single-digits-first-post-primary-poll

Down 7% in Texas is a remarkable performance by a Democrat for any statewide office.   

[badgate]

Davis' new communications director has been doing good work. And this week we've had two unforced errors from Abbott surrogates on equal pay: Yesterday the Red State Women director said "Women are too busy" to worry about equal pay (wtf?), and today an Exec for the state GOP said "Men are better negotiators."


Anyway, glad to see this posted. I didn't want to for fear of the contrarian police coming by and reminding me that Texas is still mostly Republican.

[Maxwell]

This is a good performance from her, but her favorables are crap, Abbott looks in a better place to grow from this.

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

This is a good performance from her, but her favorables are crap, Abbott looks in a better place to grow from this.

It's because of that nonsense stirred up by Wayne Slater (in what he called "Reporting") last month about her ex-husband.

[badgate]

This is a good performance from her, but her favorables are crap, Abbott looks in a better place to grow from this.

It's because of that nonsense stirred up by Wayne Slater (in what he called "Reporting") last month about her ex-husband.

Further down in this poll it says that Abbott's campaigning with Nugent hurt him more than the Davis bio flap.

[Joshgreen]

This is a good performance from her, but her favorables are crap, Abbott looks in a better place to grow from this.

Not true. Her unfavorables are from Republicans having a more definite picture than Democrats. She's at +1 net favorable with indies with over 20% undecided. Likely Republican, but the crosstabs point to an easier for Davis to grow her support.

[ElectionAtlas]

New Poll: Texas Governor by Emerson College on 2014-03-11

Summary: D: 42%, R: 49%, I: 0%, U: 9%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details