On October 23, a University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll was released for several statewide races in Texas. See the details here. For U.S. Senate, the results are: Republican 57%; Democratic 31%; Libertarian 7%; Green 5%. For Governor they are: Republican 54%; Democratic 38%; Libertarian 6%; Green 2%.
It is interesting the article reads,”…Davis leads with voters who said they never attend church services.” This should show us the evolution which is apparently taking place within the once great Democratic Party.
It is also encouraging voters are at least expressing support for 3rd party candidates, even if this support does not remain to reflect in actual number of votes received on election day.
This is the sort of information that cements plurality elections’ psychological momentum. The only poll that will break that mindset is pure proportional representation (PR).
Check out the 9th USA Parliament. We’ve been using pure American PR for 19 consecutive years and it works fine:
http://www.usparliament.org
The English language version of the
The English language version of the Texas senate debate will be run on CSPAN on Wednesday 29.
The UT/Texas Tribune poll is an internet poll, though with demographic matching. Nonetheless, persons of the same race, age, sex, and residence, who use the internet and will volunteer to be polled may be different than those who don’t. Their polls always skew toward the Libertarian party.