Obama doesn't need to win Texas, or even come especially close. Texas is proportional rather than all or nothing and anything within maybe 10% could be considered good news for his campaign and keep him ahead in the overall delegate count. Rasmussen aside many other recent polls show him close enough to score a big delegate win there.

There's a path for him to lose the popular vote in Texas but still win more delegates there due to the way the State works. Can read about that here. http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4972

Texas is being played the wrong way in the news. It isn't win or lose for either so much as it is by how much they win or lose. If it's close that's an Obama win.

It depends on where you start your timeline in comparing the data, Slyrr. Start it from 5 years ago.

And Rasmussen has a daily rating. It looks like he's slipping again. he's back down to 40%

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htm

AMEN!