The UT\/Texas Politics Project Poll Team discuss what December polling in Texas tells us about public opinion, and potential cross-currents buffeting the Trump administration & Congressional Republicans in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Henson directs the Texas Politics Project, a collection of enterprises designed to encourage informed interest and engagement in Texas politics and government. In that role, he founded and co-directs the University of Texas\/Texas Tribune Poll, the only open-access, public survey of public opinion in Texas. The data sets for those surveys are available in the polling section of the Texas Politics website. He also writes about politics for The Texas Tribune, and is a frequent resource for news media, researchers, and civic and interest groups on Texas politics and government. He also coordinates the Government Department's internship program. He is the principal author of Texas Politics,<\/em> a webtext that incorporates original media and polling data, that is used in introductory Texas government courses across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Henson was appointed to the City of Austin Ethics Review Commission in 2009 by the Austin City Council, and served as chairman of the commission from 2010 to 2012. He is currently a member of the advisory board of The Subiendo Academy in the McCombs School of Business at UT-Austin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","post_title":"James Henson","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"james-henson","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-04 16:09:11","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-04 21:09:11","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=608","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":614,"post_author":"38","post_date":"2020-07-15 17:57:01","post_date_gmt":"2020-07-15 17:57:01","post_content":"\n Joshua Blank is the Research Director of the Texas Politics Project. Born in New York, NY, he has a bachelor's degree in political science from Boston University and a doctoral degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin. <\/p>\n","post_title":"Joshua Blank","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"joshua-m-blank","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-10-13 16:34:36","post_modified_gmt":"2020-10-13 16:34:36","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=614","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":641,"post_author":"48","post_date":"2020-07-17 15:32:31","post_date_gmt":"2020-07-17 15:32:31","post_content":"\n Professor Shaw earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to accepting a position at the University of Texas in the fall of 1994, he worked in several political campaigns as a survey research analyst. Professor Shaw also served as a strategist in the 2000 and 2004 presidential election campaigns. His research and teaching interests include American Government, Campaigns and Elections, Political Parties, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, and Applied Survey Research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He is co-director of the Fox News Poll, co-director of the University of Texas\/Texas Tribune Poll, director of the Texas Lyceum Poll, and associate Principle Investigator for the 2020 American National Election Study. Professor Shaw is also a member of the national decision team for Fox News, the advisory board for the MIT Election Data & Science Lab, the advisory board for the Annette Strauss Institute, and the editorial board for Political Behavior. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Formerly, he served as President George W. Bush\u2019s representative on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and as one of the academic directors for President Barack Obama\u2019s Commission for Election Administration.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Daron Shaw","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"daron-shaw","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-07-17 15:52:30","post_modified_gmt":"2020-07-17 15:52:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/?post_type=speaker&p=641","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"guests":"","transcript":""},"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/04\/Second_Reading_Podcast-web.jpeg","download_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/podcast-download\/1671\/public-opinion-in-texas-and-the-trump-agenda.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/second-reading-podcast\/podcast-player\/1671\/public-opinion-in-texas-and-the-trump-agenda.mp3","audio_player":"Professor of Government, The University of Texas<\/em> at Austin<\/h5>\n\n\n\n