Talk:2022 Texas gubernatorial election

Matthew McConaughey

The reference used for Matthew McConaughey's potential candidacy does not list his preferred political party and McConaughey himself has not expressed preference of either party, so labeling him as a democrat is untrue at this given moment Dickeyaustin786 (talk) 15:52, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned references in 2022 Texas gubernatorial election

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of 2022 Texas gubernatorial election's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "agtracker":

• From 2022 Texas Attorney General election: "TEXAS". State AG Elections. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
• From 2022 Arizona Attorney General election: "ARIZONA". State AG Elections. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
• From 2022 Florida Attorney General election: "FLORIDA". State AG Elections. Retrieved October 6, 2020.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 02:56, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Republican Primary polling

There is a section on the same UT Tyler poll that is referenced multiple times that asks "In the Republican primary for Governor, are you most likely to support Governor Abbott, someone more centrist, more conservative, or more like Donald Trump?" It should be a lot more accurate to use this and to group all the ones that aren't Abbott into an "other" section - just have Abbott vs other. Maybe would be better to add this below the Abbott vs McCaughey one already there; could possibly even just list this poll with all 4 sections in its entirety, not too sure so I'm just going to leave this here and hope someone smarter does something with it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2c3:8980:91a0:6c27:689b:d04b:6b28 (talk) 14:19, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Also, not so important but the same poll is linked and is referenced as "The Dallas Morning News" once and "University of Texas at Tyler" next under general election polling - just inconsistent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2c3:8980:91a0:6c27:689b:d04b:6b28 (talk) 14:23, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Re: Inconsistent. Actually, both Dallas Morning News and UT Tyler or on the report. Presumably the University conducted it and DMN supported it financially, and got to report results first. You can find the report here: https://www.uttyler.edu/politicalscience/files/dmn-uttylerapril2021rv.pdf

Not sure how best to cite this as original data source, but there would obviously be coverage by the DMN, albeit behind paywall. Also see Texas Tribune podcast here: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/15/matthew-mcconaughey-texas-governor/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lupe Texensis (talk • contribs) 15:18, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Redguy07 graph

Hi. I'm Redguy07. I'm not upset, just confused on why I can't put that poll on the graph. The poll was on the same date as another poll so you call that "double counting". Redguy07 (talk) 12:59, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Polls

According to this polls now Allen West lead polls of Republicans. https://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2022/01/10/editorial/talk/allen-west-leads-texas/ --99.246.188.132 (talk) 05:24, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Nikki Haley Endorsement

Can someone add Nikki Haleys endorsement? 2600:8807:6400:C1F0:2893:6806:AF15:F6B6 (talk) 03:06, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

Importance of the high republican turnout in the primary election should be mentioned

Much higher turnout number for the Republican party compared with the Democrats beating the Blues by a margin of almost 2 to 1, 1.94 million voters on the republican side versus 1.06 million cast ballots within the democratic party primary.

62.226.85.152 (talk) 04:00, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

To be fair, O'Rourke effectively ran unopposed, receiving 91% of the vote, so many Democrats may have felt it was pointless or irrelevant to vote when there wasn't really any contention for the nomination anyway. But I'm not sure this discussion is that relevant – if sources comment on the importance of that statistic we can just copy what they have to say about it, if sources don't comment on the importance of this statistic then it's not relevant for the purposes of Wikipedia. Endwise (talk) 14:02, 6 March 2022 (UTC)