Texas Gov. Greg Abbott leads Beto O'Rourke by 5 points, UH poll finds

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott leads Democrat Beto O’Rourke by 5 percentage points in the Texas governor’s race, according to a new poll released Wednesday.

Among likely voters, Abbott edges the former El Paso congressman, 49% to 44%, the poll by the Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston found.

In the last Hobby School poll in January, Abbott led O’Rourke among likely voters, 48%-43%.

In the latest, conducted between June 27 and last Thursday, Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton each holds a 5-point lead in his November matchup with a Democrat.

The online poll surveyed 1,169 YouGov respondents who are registered voters. Of them 46% identify as Republican, 41% as Democrat and 111% are independent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/07/13/texas-gov-greg-abbott-leads-beto-orourke-by-5-points-uh-poll-finds/

[rso]

1. Beto

Definitely not an insurmountable lead.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Especially if there are major electrical blackouts

and we still have at least two months of hot weather ahead. It's also hurricane season so something as mundane as the weather could impact the election.

[HelpImSurrounded]

2. "Likely" voters

We need to change the statistics on "likely"

[Susan Calvin]

6. Bingo. nt

[LiberalArkie]

4. 111% independent ?

[dutch777]

5. Better than I thought it would be and there is still time. It is, after all, TX

I have little hope for anything worthwhile coming out of TX except the next stupid thing.

[Freethinker65]

7. If Abbott and Paxton win there should be a northern border with TX

[LoisB]

8. Come on Texas, you can do better.