Gov. Rick Perry has a nine-point lead over his Democratic opponent Bill White in a University of Texas at Austin/Texas Tribune poll released today.
Perry had 44 percent support from 800 voters polled in the survey. White had 35 percent support in the poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percent.
About 15 percent remained undecided and seven percent preferred "someone else."
Perry seems to have greater support with white voters, men and women. White has more support from African American and Hispanic voters.
About 42 percent of voters in the poll said they approved of the job Perry was doing as governor, while 39 percent disapproved. Another 16 percent said they were neutral.
The approval ratings for President Barack Obama, however, are lower. About 58 percent of Texans in the poll disapprove of the president's job performance.
Pollster Jim Henson expects that the Perry campaign will attempt to capitalize on those numbers. Perry beat Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison handily with an anti-Washington campaign. Now, the Perry campaign could be looking to tie White to anti-Obama sentiments.
"You take all of this together and you're seeing the solidification of anti-Washington sentiment trumping anti-incumbency," Henson said in the poll. "You've already seen the Perry campaign trying to identify White with this — they're obviously looking at the same thing."
Perry is the incumbent. So he will be the one after 10 yrs people will be tired of.
15 yrs of Perry is not a good picture.Talk about people wanting to be bossed around by someone who is hard of hearing, indifferent, unavailable and unaccountable to people. He is the crony king.
Posted by: Perry is incumbent | May 24, 2010 at 06:09 PM