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Talarico leads Paxton by 5 points in Texas Senate race poll (thehill.com)

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A new poll shows Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico leading Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) by 5 points over a month before the November midterm elections.

The Texas Public Opinion Research (TPOR) poll released Friday showed Talarico with 49 percent support from voters and Paxton with 44 percent support, with 3 percent saying they are undecided. This new poll is the second in a monthly series of polling results released by TPOR. Last month's poll showed Talarico's ahead by 6 points, 48-42.

Independent voters favor Talarico by double digits, 58-26, with 5 percent who say they are undecided. Paxton holds the lead among white voters and voters 55 years and above. Talarico leads among Latino voters, Black voters, voters under 55, college-educated voters, men and women, the poll stated.

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[-] darvocet@infosec.pub 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The statement is made because in the past there was a thought that only fucking idiots would elect Trump and so people protest voted or stayed home. Polls showed him losing.

So now polls mean nothing. What the media says means nothing. Get your fucking ass to the polling location and vote. In person.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago

Isn't "We can win! Get to the polls and vote!" a more effective message?

[-] 13igtyme@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

"Pokemon-Go to the polls"

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think “we will actually represent you instead of billionaires and Israel” is a better message. See: the wild success of Mamdani. But for $ome reason the democrat$ ju$t can’t $eem to manage that.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

That doesn't having anything to do with getting people to vote though...

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Yes it absolutely does. So many people don’t bother to vote because they see the options as two sides of the same coin.

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