One of the hotter topics on the Texas blogs this year has been finding a candidate to take on John Cornyn for Senate.  No one has 'fessed up to being interested, but plenty of candidates are being volunteered. Many bloggers have a favorite, while some of the DC players are pushing someone else. There have been a few sparks flying as a result.

I decided to do a series of polls looking at various candidates, to see who the voters are receptive to. To start with, I did a very dry name recognition and favorability survey on eight names. I didn't give title or bio, just the simple name.  Future polls will give increasing amounts of information to see how the recognition and favorability can change through marketing.

I polled 480 past Dem primary voters, and a lot of them didn't recognize any of the potential candidates. No one had good name recognition. One flaw I realized when doing analysis is that I didn't give a 'no opinion' option and some respondents may have selected 'Don't Recognize' rather than give a favorable or unfavorable rating. For this reason, I am only releasing some basic analysis rather than the complete results. There is value in the results, but don't read too much into them.

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