Abbott Leads Davis by 6 Points in Latest UT/Texas Tribune Poll [View all]

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Source: University of Texas

AUSTIN, Texas — If the election for Texas governor were held today, Attorney General Greg Abbott would have a six-point lead over state Sen. Wendy Davis, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Forty percent of Texans said they would vote for Abbott in a head-to-head race with Davis, with 34 percent indicating support for Davis and 25 percent responding as undecided.

“What you’ve got is a race in which, for the first time in a long time, the Democrat is as well-known as the Republican at the outset of the race,” said poll co-director Daron Shaw, a professor of government at The University of Texas at Austin. “If it’s Abbott, he will have to introduce himself to Republican voters and mobilize them in a way that neither Bush nor Perry had to. Those Bush and Perry voters are still out there for him, though.”

The statewide poll, conducted Oct. 18-27, surveyed 1,200 registered Texas voters and had a margin of error of 3.3 percentage points.

Read more: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2013/11/04/abbott-davis-texas-poll/

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This was the poll results from a month ago:

A Texas Lyceum poll out this week showed Abbott leading Davis 29% to 21% but showed that a majority of voters had no preference in the race and revealed that 45% of Republicans and almost 80% of independents didn't know enough about Abbott.

UT analysis:
http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/11_1_0.html