Numbers to Know from the Latest University of Texas / Texas Tribune Poll

Ross Ramsey wrote eight stories about the February 2018 University of Texas / Texas Tribune Poll between Monday and Thursday this week, and we highlighted some results related to the now-underway primary elections in Tribtalk Wednesday. Hopefully Ross is taking the day off, but here is a selection of number that we find interesting, important, or some combination of the two.  Much more analysis will come in the next few weeks.  In the entries below, the bold text after the numbers will link you to the specific result and additional tabs on our "Latest Poll" page.

66:  The percent of Democrats who said they hadn’t thought about it enough to have a choice when initially asked about their preference to be the Democratic gubernatorial candidate.

81: Percent of Republicans who give Governor Greg Abbott a positive job approval rating.

83: Percent of Republicans who give President Donald Trump a positive job approval rating.

67:  Percent of Republicans who give Lt. Governor Dan Patrick a positive job approval rating.

-21:  The percentage point change in GOP approval of the FBI since June 2017.

77: The percent of Democrats who believe the Trump campaign and Russia cooperated in 2016.

81: The percent of Republicans who think they didn’t cooperate.

72: The percent of Republicans who approve of the job Ted Cruz is doing as US Senator

50: The percent of Republicans who approve of the job John Cornyn is doing as US Senator

-9: Percentage point change in overall approval level of federal government response to Harvey – dropped from 57 percent to 48 percent.

-15:  Percentage point change in Republicans' approval level of federal government response to Harvey-- dropped from 76 percent to 61 percent.

-12: Change in the number of Texans who expressed neither a favorable or unfavorable opinion (or had none) of Beto O’Rourke since the October UT/TT poll.

42: Percentage point increase of Republicans who say their family is better off economically than they were a year ago since Oct 2016 poll -- from 15 percent to 56 percent.

- 25: Pereentage point change in number of Democrats  who say their family is better off economically than they were a year ago since Oct 2016 poll -- dropped from 43 percent to 18 percent.

16: Percent of Republican women who have a favorable view of the #metoo movement.

66: Percent of Democratic women who have a favorable view of the #metoo movement.

51: Percent of independents who have an unfavorable view of the #metoo movement.

55: Percent of Texas men who agreed that “The recent attention paid to the sexual harassment and assault of women in America is leading to the unfair treatment of men.”

34: Percent of Texas women who agreed with the same statement.

61: Percent of Republican women who agreed with the same statement.

72: Percent of Republican men who agreed with the same statement.

0: Change since June of 2016 in the percentage of Texans who said women experienced the most discrimination among a list of groups that also included Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, men, gays and lesbians, transgender people, Christians, and Muslims.

 

CORRECTION:  Earlier version garbled the Harvey numbers - they have been corrected and we regret the error. H/T @donforse