{"id":1153645,"date":"2022-08-15T08:53:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T13:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1153645"},"modified":"2022-08-16T10:47:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:47:06","slug":"texas-voters-weigh-in-on-november-midterm-elections-in-new-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1153645","title":{"rendered":"Texas voters weigh in on November midterm elections in new poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/utt-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1153700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/utt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/utt-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/utt.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>EAST TEXAS &#8212; The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler released a new poll Sunday that asked Texas voters their thoughts about the November midterm elections, including the race between Gov. Abbott and Beto O&#8217;Rourke, and other issues affecting the state. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is maintaining a modest lead over Democrat Beto O&#8217;Rourke in the race for Texas governor. According to the new poll, Abbott has a 7-point cushion over O&#8217;Rourke, unchanged from a similar survey in May.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Powering the Governor&#8217;s lead is his handling of the Texas economy, with 53% favoring his stewardship and 41% who disapprove. Only 9% blamed Abbott or Texas lawmakers for inflation, while 48% blamed higher costs for goods and services on President Biden. The poll found that 63% don&#8217;t think elected officials are doing enough to stop mass shootings. Roughly the same number of Texans are concerned about gun violence in their community. Also, a majority of voters &#8211; 56% to 43% &#8211; say Texas is headed in the wrong direction under Abbott&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Abbott won most of the poll&#8217;s questions on who voters trust. Respondents gave him the nod over O&#8217;Rourke when it comes to reducing crime (43% TO 30%), securing the border (45% TO 26%), improving the economy (42% TO 32%), and even handling the power grid (35% TO 33%). O&#8217;Rourke did beat Abbott in one category: 37% thought he would do a better job of bringing people together, compared with 32% for Abbott.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, conducted AUG. 1-7, surveyed 1,384 registered voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler released a new poll Sunday that asked Texas voters their thoughts about the November midterm elections, including the race between Gov. Abbott and Beto O&#8217;Rourke, and other issues affecting the state. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is maintaining a modest lead over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1153645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas voters weigh in on November midterm elections in new poll<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1153661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/utt-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Texas voters weigh in on November midterm elections in new poll","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 20:55:35","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\/2022\/08\/utt-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Texas voters weigh in on November midterm elections in new poll","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153645","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153702,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153645\/revisions\/1153702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}