Poll shows hurricane response aided Perry

By Associated Press

AUSTIN - Republican Gov. Rick Perry's response to back-to-back Gulf Coast hurricanes has fueled a surge in his job-approval ratings and put him on firm footing heading into election year, according to a poll released Tuesday.

The Texas Poll surveyed 1,000 randomly selected Texans on behalf of Scripps Howard and several media outlets the last two weeks of November.

It found that Perry's once-low job-approval rating climbed 10 percentage points since a September poll. Forty-nine percent of respondents in the recent poll said they approve of the way Perry is doing his job, and 37 percent said they disapprove.

Three months ago, those numbers were nearly reversed.

more: http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2005/12/07/texas_news/state01.txt

Appears we are already reaping the benefits of our lousy public education system in this State. Stupidity is the only explanation for this.

You can pretty miss them even in a random poll. They're the ones that got the brunt of Rita. And the media pretty much wrote them off as well. They're poor people after all. Who wants to see misery on TV and newsprint?

Did everybody forget the traffic gridlock that Gov. Goodhair created when he didn't make the highways all outgoing from the coastal areas. He waited so long that the national media finally called him on it. Thousands of people ran out of gas and were stranded on the roadways. Oh yeah, that was great management.

Sonia

:shrug: I tried to find out on their website, but I couldn't. I can't imagine anyone on the eastern side of the state (well, not more than 40%) who'd say Perry did a good job with the 2005 hurricane season.

But it's an AP story based on the Texas Poll.

I don't live in Texas, so couldn't even guess where Texoma is. But I missed it was an AP story. D'oh!

to get across Houston.

If Perry is getting a favorable rating, it just shows how fuc*in stupid Texans are.

What exactly did he do in response to Rita that would cause an increase in his approval ratings? I'm seriously curious about this.

Then again, I've never been able to figure out why any Texans "approved of" or voted for this airhead other than that he once worked with Shrub and has an "R" after his name. It will be a sad commentary on the state of this state if Goodhair gets voted to another term and becomes our longest-serving governor.

in fact, probably already has.

And we can return to talking about the governor's multiple failures in funding public education now, right?

about how this would negatively impact the state, then he left everyone stranded on the highways.

Thank God that Houston, Dallas and San Antonio had some smart-thinking Dem mayors!

Goodhair is a freaking cartoon.

Perry learned from the master, his predecessor in crime. Show up at a shelter, stand in front of the cameras, hug a child and people of a different color, fake a concerned look on your face... And if you catch the people flipping between PTL and QVC, your ratings soar!

It was in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Sunday. I'm sorry if this has been already posted, I've been gone a few days.

This past weekend my family gathered for the annual Christmas party (yum, delicious gumbo and potato salad) in Bridge City, Texas. As we drove down Friday we saw the damage that's still lingering. The blue roofs and downed trees. It was dark when we got in to Beaumont/Pt Arthur, but Saturday when we went out again, it was very shocking. My family is very thankful that they still have houses.

My cousin went to Sabine Pass HS, and Scottie Berg (the school's secretary) is her boyfriend's mom. Ms. Berg had been sleeping in a tent, but thankfully the FEMA trailer showed up before the cold weather blew in last week.

I can tell you that in my family, they don't have high thoughts about Perry. It took them 24-25 hours to make it to DFW during evacuation. But they're going on day to day and just making it, and they're better off than a lot of people.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/13383410.htm

next year's elections, or else the poll was taken in the 2-4 weeks that SE Texans were without phone service from Rita. I really doubt this is legit unless Lubbock and Midland residents were the only ones polled.