A new poll conducted by the University of Texas/Texas Tribune, finds that despite his well known association with nutjob Ted Nugent, Republican Greg Abbott leads Democrat Wendy Davis by 12 percentage points in the race for governor.
That result is close to the 11-point spread, also in Abbott’s favor, in the February UT/TT Poll. In this most recent survey, he maintained a 14-point lead among male voters and a 10-percentage point lead among female voters.
“Abbott remains strong and this, in a lot of ways, confirms the strategy that we’ve seen from his camp: Leave well enough alone,” said Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin and co-director of the UT/TT Poll. “The Davis campaign seems to be not able to reverse the trend.”
