Politics1 | Vin Gopal

TEXAS. The latest Rasmussen poll shows Governor Rick Perry leading US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison by a 46-36 vote in next year’s GOP gubernatorial primary.

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry holds a 38 percent to 26 percent lead over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison with 27 percent undecided should she decide to challenge him in a Republican primary, according to a University of Texas-Austin Poll conducted June 11-12. The margin of error is 5.14 points.

On the Democratic side, the poll is not much help since 64 percent are undecided at this early stage. The only one of four candidates tested that broke double-digits was Kinky Friedman at 12 percent. The writer, singer, humorist and sometime politicians ran for governor as an independent in 2006 and placed fourth in the six-person race.

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Organizers of America’s Tea Party hope to attract 50,000 people to Southfork Ranch on the Fourth of July.

But Gov. Rick Perry, who in April fired up an anti-tax “tea party” with his stance against the federal government and for state rights, was not invited to speak, The Dallas Morning News reported.

Dallas Tea Party organizers said they have accepted no support from any political party and won’t allow any elected official or anyone running for office to speak.