The Belo Texas Tracking Poll Unveiled
Whew. The embargo of our KVUE presidential primary poll is finally over. Bottom line? The Texas Democratic Primary race is a toss-up. (And definitely no telling how the caucuses will go.)
Clinton leads Obama in this poll 46% to 43%, within the 4% margin of error.
Austin-based Public Strategies is performing this daily tracking poll for all four Belo Texas stations, and started polling Sunday night (during the Oscars).
Watch the video here.
These are the cumulative results from Sunday and Monday night, polling a total of 800 registered voters in Texas... and broken down among whether they're likely to vote in the D or R primaries. Preferences among likely Democratic voters:
Margin of error +/-4%
Question: What is the single most important policy issue in your vote for a Democratic nominee?
***Here's the full 17 page poll write-up and the crosstabs.***
SUBGROUPS:
Clinton does well among whites (48%-38%) and Hispanics (63%-30%), but Obama is way up among Blacks (72%-17%).
ISSUES:
Top issues for Texans are economy and jobs (24%) and healthcare (20%).
REPUBLICANS:
Again, A LOT MORE is in the link.
It is kind of messed up that Belo would hire PSI to do its polling. PSI is anything but objective. Don't they represent AT&T and a ton of other huge companies...including defense contractors?
I don't dispute the credibility of the polling, just Belo's judgement.
Keep up the good work though, Elise. When you have your own network you can hire an impartial pollster.