BETO! BETO! BETO!

[Texasgal]

NEW: A recent poll from @TexasLyceum shows @BetoORourke trailing Greg Abbott by just two points. pic.twitter.com/5ypUdBSqF7— Texas Signal (@TexasSignal) April 1, 2022

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[applegrove]

1. Excellent.

[Mike Nelson]

2. Yay! Yay!

... Yay!

[NickB79]

3. I've never heard of Texas Lyceum

Do they have a good track record?

[blogslug]

7. Yes, they do

It's pretty reliable as far as polls go.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I like the trend, but it is within the margin of error. He has some serious ground to make up.

I sure hope Beto can do it. It would enormously improve ALL Texans' lives.

[Nictuku]

5. Wouldn't that be Wonderful?

[Maraya1969]

6. How do we get our Democratic uber wealthies to give a bunch of money to him and others so they can

the TV screen, the radio and billboards with pro-Beto etc messaging?

We know that big money from oil, paper and Putin contribute to the conservative politicians. I want big money from other places, like the motion picture industry, (?) to walk into our elections with the same kind of force.

[brooklynite]

16. By offering data more convincing than a single outlier poll.

I and my circle of political friends and acquaintances do high dollar contributions in races where it makes sense.

All the analysts currently rate Texas-GOV as either Likely R or Safe R.

We have Governorships to protect in Kansas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin.

We have stronger pickup prospects in Georgia and Arizona.

How much you like O'Rourke or hate Abbott is irrelevant to his actual competitiveness.

[Maraya1969]

18. According to the Texas Tribune Abbot started off with 62 million and Beto 6 million.

Maybe that is the reason Abbott is ahead. What would happen now if Beto got a big surge of money which caused him to have more than Abbot? That big money can flood the airways.

[summer_in_TX]

8. Now you're talking!

I've been hoping that Abbott's rule with an iron fist and his investigating the families of transgender children and youth as if they were engaged in child abuse would wake up voters in the state and prove to be the last straw.

I have no earthly idea of how any opinion surveyors are able to get valid and reliable results these days because of voice mail and caller ID, but I do like the sound of that.

[Buckeyeblue]

9. Is there 1 issue driving these results?

I don't know anything about Texas politics.

[MagickMuffin]

11. As a Texan I'd say there are way more than 1 issue

Women are no longer safe here

Children are no longer safe here


Voters are no longer safe here

There are more issues but these 3 are the most important ones


And hopefully come this fall ALL Texans will be allowed to vote and have that vote counted.

[JCMach1]

13. Gov. Abbott has remade himself into a Trump clone to mask his

Incompetence...

People are not dumb. Everyone has seen their electric bill that the Gov. and legislature failed to make utilities pay for their Snowmageddon failures and instead passed the buck to consumers.

Mean-spirited Trumpism can't hide his failures.

[Buckeyeblue]

15. Conservatism ultimately fails

Look at Kansas. I always thought Texas was more of a live and let live state. But they've been as big of a race to the bottom state as all the other southern states. And yet by all accounts Texas is less Red than they were 10 years ago.

[JCMach1]

17. Sad thing is Abbott knows better... He's a mean-spirited poseur

At best

[Tickle]

10. Has anyone looked at the

poll? I just did. Maybe someone can post it here. My phone can’t

[dalton99a]

12. Beto officially represents Texas Democrats.

Some people on here would rather he'd stay home and do nothing and let Republicans do whatever unchallenged

[MagickMuffin]

14. Years ago I was hoping Julian Castro would run I think he could've won

But I currently will support and work for Beto!