New Texas gov poll shows Tea Party candidate Debra Medina would defeat Democrat; Perry still leads

A previous Rasmussen survey of likely Republican voters found Perry leading Hutchison 44-29 with Medina trailing at 16.

Now comes word, via a new Rasmussen Reports Poll, that Medina is gaining some traction and today all three of the Republicans lead the likely Democratic challenger, Houston Mayor Bill White.

Hutchison still performs the best, beating White by 13 points, 49-36. Perry is second-best in that hypothetical matchup, defeating White by nine, 48-39.

Boiling Tea

John Zogby

Tea Partiers are not a fringe phenomenon. The political views of those who identify with Tea Partiers from a distance and those who are actively engaged in the movement are very similar. From the perspective of Tea Party detractors, the sympathizers are for the most part as extreme as are actual Tea Party organizers and participants.

And there are plenty of those sympathizers. While people who are official members of Tea Party organizations and those who attend Tea Parties are relatively few, those who are generally sympathetic to their cause are many. In fact, taken together, these three groups comprise 47% of likely voters according to our latest survey. Senator Scott Brown’s assertion that he could not win with a mere support of the Tea Party Movement misses this larger point: Tea Party activists can elect few people but Tea Party supporters can elect many more and winning without at least some of the Tea Party sympathetic vote is, at the present moment, a tall order.

Tea Party Group Plans Political Action Committee

Trying to turn grassroots anger into political power, members of the Tea Party movement who are gathered for their inaugural convention here announced plans to form a political action committee to raise money and provide political consulting and campaign management for conservative candidates.

The organizers said the committee aims to raise $10 million this year, and is hoping to back conservative candidates in five races to start; in the most highly visible, organizers said, they want to run a candidate against Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat. They plan to meet at the end of this month and begin identifying 15 other Congressional races in which they would back candidates.

“Let us not be naïve here,” said Mark Skoda, the leader of the a Tea Party group in Memphis, who said he would be president of the political action committee. “The notion of holding up signs does not get people elected.”

PJTV: Welcome to Nashville: Kicking Off The 2010 National Tea Party Convention

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