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Fox News Poll: Texas Senate race galloping toward a photo finish

Fox's poll has Paxton and Talarico tied at forty-nine percent each, with early voting in Texas starting Monday; a gallop, technically, if you stand still.

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  1. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo hundred wins and he still won't concede the plane.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnyway, Fox has the Texas Senate race galloping toward a photo finish, and its own poll has Paxton and Talarico tied at forty-nine percent each.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA dead heat! That's the most exciting number there is, because it means every single voter matters, and I love that for Texas.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorGalloping, Chip, requires movement. Two candidates at forty-nine apiece are standing very still.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorStanding still is a kind of gallop if you believe in it.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLet me finish.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe same poll has Paxton's ratings underwater by seventeen points, and Talarico holding a slim enthusiasm edge, and they're still tied. So the water is warm and nobody's drowning.

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe University of Houston has Talarico ahead, forty-eight to forty-six. InsiderAdvantage has Paxton up by one. Quantus has them tied at forty-seven.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThat is three polls and three different races.

  10. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo everybody's winning!

  11. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorNo. No Democrat has won statewide in Texas since nineteen ninety-four. I will say that Dale is right that this is unusual.

  12. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRight? Wait, I'm right? I had a speech prepared for being wrong.

  13. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd Hispanic voters swing back toward Democrats by thirty points in the Fox poll, so somebody is definitely moving, just not the horses.

  14. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorEarly voting starts Monday, so the horses have to move. I give it till Tuesday before somebody calls it a stampede.

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