Undergraduate Students Find More Texans Backing Obama, Hating Stimulus, Through Recent
Earl Survey Telephone Inquiry
March 24, 2009
By: John Davis
Media advisory for announcement of Texas voters' opinion survey.
WHAT:
Announcement of Texas voters' opinion survey
WHEN: 10:15 a.m. Wednesday (March 25)
WHERE: Room 107 of Holden Hall, located at the corner of Broadway and Akron
Avenue on the Texas Tech campus
EVENT: For a Republican-leaning state, more Texas voters seem to be in support
of President Barack Obama but hate the idea of his economic recovery plan, according
to a Texas Tech University Political Science Department poll of voting-aged Texans.
Political science majors polled about 580 Texans across the state from Feb. 16-March
8. The students will discuss their findings during a news conference.
The survey was administered at the Earl Survey Research Lab in the Department of Political
Science at Texas Tech. Assistant professor Cindy Rugeley is instructor of the class.
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CONTACT: Cindy Rugeley,assistant professor of political science, Department of Political Science, Texas Tech
University, (806) 742-4081 ext. 223, or
cindy.rugeley@ttu.edu