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The New York Times Upshot / Siena College Texas 07 Poll:
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Republican Incumbent Culberson 48% Democrat Pannill Fletcher 45%
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Voters Evenly Divided on House Control 48-48%; Give President Trump Negative 43-51% Job Approval Rating
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Favorability Ratings: Pannill Fletcher, 28-23 Percent; Culberson, 43-33 Percent
Loudonville, NY. Incumbent Republican Congressman John Culberson holds an early three-point lead over his Democratic challenger, lawyer Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, 48-45 percent, according to a new New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll of likely Texas 7th Congressional District voters. Pannill Fletcher has a 28-23 percent favorability rating, compared to a 43-33 percent favorability rating for Culberson.
Likely voters in this Houston-area district are evenly divided between preferring Democrats or Republicans to control the House of Representatives next year, 48-48 percent. Voters give President Trump an eight-point negative job approval rating with 43 percent approving the job he is doing and 51 percent disapproving and by 55-39 percent they oppose an immigration reform bill that would reduce legal immigration and provide funds for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.
This New York Times Upshot/Siena College Poll is part of an ongoing project polling pivotal Congressional races across the country. The data is published live on https://www.nytimes.com/section/upshot. This press release highlights the key findings and provides access in the cross-tabulations to the entire survey as well as how demographic groups answered each question.
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This New York Times Upshot/Siena College TX 07 survey was conducted September 14-18, 2018 by telephone calls in English and Spanish to 500 TX 07 voters. This poll has a margin of error of +/- 5.0 percentage points. Calls were made to a stratified weighted sample of voters from the L-2 Voter list via both land and cell phones. A likely-to-vote probability was computed for each respondent based on their stated likelihood to vote as well as by virtue of the imputation of a turnout probability score based on past voting behavior. This combined probability to vote score was applied as a weight along with a weight that considered party, age, race/ethnicity, education, region within the district and gender. Polling support for this project provided by Institute for Policy and Opinion Research at Roanoke College, Reconnaissance Market Research, M. Davis & Company, The Public Opinion Research Lab at the University of North Florida and The Survey Research Center at the University of Waterloo. The Siena College Research Institute, directed by Donald Levy, Ph.D., conducts political, economic, social and cultural research primarily in NYS. SCRI, an independent, non-partisan research institute, subscribes to the American Association of Public Opinion Research Code of Professional Ethics and Practices. For more information, please call Steven Greenberg at 518-469-9858 or Don Levy at 518-783-2901. Survey cross-tabulations and frequencies can be found at: www.Siena.edu/SCRI/SNY.
