Poll Shows Houston Voters’ Thoughts on Mayoral Race and the Area’s Major Issues

Last night, Houston Public Media News 88.7 FM and KHOU 11 released an election poll conducted by the Survey Research Center, the University of Houston Center for Public Policy and Rice University. It covers a wide range of questions about the state of Houston — from what voters see as the major problems we're facing, to their attitudes about potential solutions to those problems and how to pay for them, to of course the upcoming race for Mayor.

We walk through the results and consider what we might take away from them with the help of Bob Stein, a professor of political science at Rice University, who oversaw the poll.

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