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Defend America on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 7:42:53 PM
Poll: Debra Medina closing on Kay Bailey Hutchison
By
ANDY BARR |
2/9/10 12:58 PM EST
Tea party-backed candidate Debra Medina is closing on Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison in Texas’s Republican gubernatorial primary,
increasing the odds the race led by Gov. Rick Perry will be thrown into
a runoff.
According to a survey out Tuesday
by Public Policy Polling, Medina, a nurse who’s now a businesswoman,
had the support of 24 percent of likely Republican primary voters,
trailing the three-term senator by only 4 percentage points. Perry, who
leads Hutchison by double-digits in several polls, got 39 percent in
the latest survey.
If no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote in the March 2
primary, the top two finishers will compete in a runoff on April 13.
The poll of 423 likely Republican voters found Medina particularly
strong among those angry at Washington. Among the third of voters in
the poll who said they disapproved of Washington, Medina topped Perry,
37 percent to 32 percent.
Both Perry and Hutchison had approval ratings of at least 50 percent in the poll, making Medina’s surge even more surprising.
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