{"id":14020,"date":"2012-07-12T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T17:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2012-07-12T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T21:25:25","slug":"new-ppp-poll-cruz-49-cruz-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=14020","title":{"rendered":"New PPP Poll: Cruz 49%, Dewhurst 44%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;PPP&#8217;s first poll of the Texas Senate runoff finds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/main\/2012\/07\/cruz-leads-in-texas-runoff.html\">Ted Cruz with a surprising 49-44 lead<\/a>  and a much more enthusiastic cadre of supporters than former front runner David Dewhurst.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Surprising, that is, unless you&#8217;ve paid close attention to the race. The Cruz campaign is better organized, better focused, has a winning message, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=12995\">hasn&#8217;t been caught lying<\/a> the way the Dewhurst campaign has.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=14010\">second poll today<\/a> showing Cruz leading Dewhurst. I&#8217;m pretty sure they&#8217;re hitting the panic button over at Dewhurst headquarters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/pdf\/2011\/PPP_Release_TX_712.pdf\">Full poll results here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;PPP&#8217;s first poll of the Texas Senate runoff finds Ted Cruz with a surprising 49-44 lead and a much more enthusiastic cadre of supporters than former front runner David Dewhurst.&#8221; Surprising, that is, unless you&#8217;ve paid close attention to the race. The Cruz campaign is better organized, better focused, has a winning message, and hasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,12],"tags":[928,941,2862,90,1706,2865,950,2861,945],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-2012-election","tag-david-dewhurst","tag-elections","tag-polls","tag-ppp","tag-republicans","tag-ted-cruz","tag-texas","tag-texas-senate-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14027,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions\/14027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}