Texas: Rick Perry 50, Bill White 40

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Republican Gov. Rick Perry leads his Democratic challenger, Bill White by 10 points — 50 percent to 40 percent — in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll, which was conducted in the days leading up to early voting. Libertarian Kathie Glass has the support of 8 percent of respondents; Deb Shafto of the Green Party gets 2 percent.
In the last UT/TT poll, conducted in early September, Perry led by 6 points, 39 percent to 33 percent. That poll also found 22 percent undecided; in this poll, undecided voters were pressed to say which candidate they would choose if the election were held today.

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New Zealand: National Party Leads Labour by Large Margin

Thinking about the Party Vote, which is for a political party, which political party would you vote for?

	Jul. 2009	Apr. 2009	Feb. 2009
National	56%	57%	56%
Labour	31%	31%	28%
Green	7%	7%	6%
Maori Party	3%	2%	3%
New Zealand First	2%	1%	1%
ACT	1%	2%	3%

Source: Colmar Brunton / One News
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,001 New Zealand voters, conducted from Jul. 25 to Jul. 29, 2009. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

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