Texas Bar Poll Results - Congratulations to Democrats Molina, Yanez, Houston, Jordan & Strawn

The State Bar of Texas conducts a non-partisan polls of lawyers across Texas about the statewide judicial races as well as the various district-wide appellate court races.

The State Bar poll can be an indicator of the coming elections, and the State Bar poll offers a hope of change for the two high courts in Texas, which both desperately need change.

Congratulations are first due to J.R. Molina, who is running for the Court of Criminal Appeals, place 4. Molina got 3229 votes, the most votes of any candidate in the race (937 more than Republican incumbent Paul Womack and about twice as many as Womack’s Republican primary challenger, Robert Francis):

votes
3229 – J.R. Molina
2292 – Paul Womack
1616 – Robert Francis
831 – Dave Howard

Court of Criminal Appeals, place 4, could easily go Democratic in November.

Congratulations are also due to Linda Yanez, who got 346 more votes (over 14% more votes) than her Texas Supreme Court, place 8, primary opponent Susan Criss:

votes
3864 – Phil Johnson
2769 – Linda Yanez
2423 – Susan Criss
589 – Drew Shirley

If you add the votes for the Democratic candidates and compare them against the votes for the Republican incumbent, we win very easily 5192 to 3864. Texas Supreme Court, place 8, could also easily go Democratic in November.

More congratulations are due to Sam Houston, Democrat for Texas Supreme Court, place 8, who got 703 more votes (40% more) than his primary opponent Baltasar Cruz:

votes
4530 – Dale Wainwright
2456 – Sam Houston
1753 – Baltasar Cruz
989 – David Smith

If you add the Democratic votes plus the votes for Libertarian David Smith, we win 5198 to 4530, but the Libertarian vote is the margin which gives us the victory so we need to focus hard on this race.

Also, in the race for Court of Criminal Appeals, place 3, the Libertarian candidate’s support is more than the margin between Susan Strawn, Democratic challenger, versus Tom Price, Republican incumbent:

votes
3085 – Tom Price
2815 – Susan Strawn
500 – Matthew Eilers

Jim Jordan, the unopposed Democratic candidate running to challenge the incumbent Republican Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, has only just begun his campaign (because he is unopposed in the primary), and he deserves many congratulations for obtaining the second highest vote total among Democratic candidates, so we clearly need to rally around his candidacy.

In summary, the Texas Democrats who gathered the most votes are:

votes
3229 – J.R. Molina (in a four-way race with one Democrat)
2911 - Jim Jordan (in a three-way race with one Democrat)
2815 – Susan Strawn (in a three-way race with one Democrat)
2769 – Linda Yanez (in a four-way race with two Democrats)
2456 – Sam Houston (in a four-way race with two Democrats)
2423 – Susan Criss (in a four-way race with two Democrats)
1753 – Baltasar Cruz (in a four-way race with two Democrats)

There are also many very promising poll results for district-wide appellate court races at the link above.