Mar 30, 2020 | Campaign News
We’ve been asked if there is any polling about the government’s response to the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 with relevance to the general election. It’s probably still too early to tell, and there isn’t much political polling going on (at least that’s publicly...
Mar 10, 2020 | Campaign News
Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt (D) has resigned to seek the seat being vacated by Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin), whose resignation is effective April 30. Her resignation was required by the Texas Constitution. Former County Judge Sam Biscoe (D) was appointed to fill...
Mar 1, 2020 | Campaign News
Tuesday is the primary election in Texas. Our live coverage of results and analysis will begin at about 7 p.m. CT and can be found at https://txelects.com/live/. Friday was a record-setting early voting day for the Democratic primary in the 15 counties with the most...
Feb 28, 2020 | Campaign News
Early voting in person has concluded. Ballots by mail that arrive after today (Friday) are also included as early votes, so the final totals will be higher than any reported prior to Election Day. Through yesterday (Thursday), the 10th day of early voting, turnout in...
Feb 25, 2020 | Campaign News
Early voting continues through Friday for the March 3 primary election. Through yesterday (Monday), the seventh day of the early voting period, 2.8% of registered voters had cast ballots in the Democratic primary statewide and 3.4% had voted in the Republican primary...
Feb 24, 2020 | Campaign News
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are tied as the top two choices of “likely Democratic primary voters,” according to a new Univ. of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs survey (PDF). Biden (22.5%) and Sanders (22.1%) are followed by Elizabeth Warren (18%), Michael...
Feb 17, 2020 | Campaign News
M.J. Hegar leads the 12-person Democratic field of U.S. Senate candidates, and she is the only candidate with double-digit support (22%), according to a new Univ. of Texas/Texas Tribune poll (PDF). The next six candidates were all within the poll’s margin of error of...
Feb 14, 2020 | Campaign News
Bernie Sanders (24%), former Vice President Joe Biden (22%) and Elizabeth Warren (15%) lead the Democratic presidential field, according to a new Univ. of Texas/Texas Tribune poll (PDF). Sanders’s support had doubled since the October poll. Michael Bloomberg (10%),...
Feb 6, 2020 | Campaign News
Judicial Poll: Incumbents on the Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals were the top choices of respondents to the State Bar of Texas’s 2020 Judicial Poll (pdf). Chief Justice Nathan Hecht led all candidates with 2,706 votes, nearly 1K more than Democratic rival...
Feb 2, 2020 | Campaign News
Joe Biden has twice the support as any other Democratic candidate in Texas but would still narrowly lose the state to President Trump, according to a new Dallas Morning News/Univ. of Texas-Tyler poll. Biden is the first choice of 38% of respondents “who identify as...
Jan 29, 2020 | Campaign News
President Trump polls at or just over 50% and leads four prospective Democratic challengers by 3-8 percentage points according to Texas Lyceum’s 2020 statewide survey (PDF), but is within the margin of error of Bernie Sanders, who polls strongest among the four...
Jan 6, 2020 | Campaign News
HD28 special: Former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Eliz Markowitz. HD92 open: Texas Right to Life PAC endorsed Jeff Cason to succeed the retiring Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R-Bedford). HD127: Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC endorsed Rep. Dan Huberty (R-Humble) for...
