DALLAS — A majority of Texans think the state’s headed in the wrong direction. That’s according to a poll conducted by the Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler. Just 41% approve of the governor’s job performance; 54% don’t. That poll shows that Matthew McConaughey is now 9 points ahead of the governor in a hypothetical matchup. The poll also shows Beto O’Rourke now just 5 points behind the governor. The poll goes on to show that only 34% of Texans agree with the new law which allows guns to be carried with no permit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DALLAS — A majority of Texans think the state’s headed in the wrong direction. That’s according to a poll conducted by the Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler. Just 41% approve of the governor’s job performance; 54% don’t. That poll shows that Matthew McConaughey is now 9 points ahead of the … Continue reading Poll: Abbott’s approval rating at 41%<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1058806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/uttylerlogo-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Poll: Abbott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approval rating at 41%","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 16:40:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/uttylerlogo-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Poll: Abbott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approval rating at 41%","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058960,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058795\/revisions\/1058960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1058806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}