Record · the original document behind a story
UT/Texas Politics Project August 2026 poll writeup
Published by The Texas Politics Project on August 24, 2026.
Trial ballot and field dates for the August 2026 Texas statewide poll.
The cited passage, with surrounding source text
… <a href="/authors/joshua-blank">Joshua Blank</a> </div> </header> <div class="blog-article"><p style="text-align: right;"><a href="../../../files/202608_POLL_TOPLINE-c5d4ba53.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TOPLINES</a><br><a href="../../../files/202608_POLL_CROSSTABS-274ba11f.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CROSSTABS</a></p> <p>A new University of Texas/Texas Politics Project poll finds 42% of Texas voters preferring Democrat James Talarico and 39% planning to vote for Republican Ken Paxton in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Texas, with the remaining 3% opting for Libertarian Ted Brown and 14% expressing no preference. The poll found Republican candidates leading by single digits in the other major statewide races included in the survey, amidst persistent negative views of the economy and continued opposition to the construction of data centers.</p> <p><div id="chart-container-178946-NxMMDMlEjjmgDHtt"></div> …
Read the original · Open the copy we saved
Where we use it
- MAGA Inc. files $10 million in Texas Senate ads, split against Talarico and for Paxton · cited for the 42-39-3 trial ballot, dates, and sample
About this saved copy
The fingerprint identifies the saved text used for this record. A different copy has a different fingerprint.
- Text fingerprint (SHA-256)
c1360517b340fcc2dbf4a189d44d00dd19834944457178538593a6db07a459fa