Texas poll finds Romney ahead of Obama, Perry job approval ratings down. As It was recently Written by dallasNews

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An annual non-partisan poll found that Texas still leans red.
Among likely voters, a Texas Lyceum poll showed 58 percent of Texans would vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan if the election were held at the time the questions were asked. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden would receive 39 percent of the vote.

Both Gov. Rick Perry and President Barack Obama’s job approval ratings are down from the results of the 2011 poll. About 56 percent of likely voters strongly or somewhat approve of the job Perry is doing as governor, while 45 percent approve of Obama’s job as president. Perry fares slightly better when looked through a partisan lens.

Ted Cruz would get 50 percent of the vote for the U.S. Senate election, winning over lesser-known Democratic candidate Paul Sadler, who would receive 24 percent.

Voters are more likely to vote for a Republican representative to the U.S. Congress by a 16 percent margin. Only 26 percent would vote for a Democrat.

The poll states that the “small silver lining for Democrats is that voters remain unengaged, with between one-quarter and one-third of the electorate saying that they haven’t thought enough about the down-ballot races to have an opinion.”

The results were gathered from a random subset of 666 of the overall sample of 1,175 voters. The poll was conducted Sept. 10-26 and has an overall margin of error of 4.66 percentage points based on responses from likely voters.