Vice Mayor Pro-Tem and Council Member Lovell demonstrates clear strength for re-election bid
The National Hispanic Professional Organization
November 2009 Election Survey
July 17 to 23, 2009
Analysis of survey was performed by the
carreñogroup
Houston, Texas
If the election were held today, who would be your choice for Houston City Council, At-Large, Position 2?
LOVELL – 75.4%
Burks – 17.4%
Shorter – 7.2%
DEMOGRAPHIC BREAKDOWN OF SURVEY TAKERS
ETHNICITY
Anglos 55.5%
African Americans 23.0%
Hispanics 13.4%
Asians 2.7%
Other 5.4%
PARTY AFFILIATION
D 66.2%
R 10.0%
I 19.4%
Other 4.5%
GENDER
Males 56.2%
Females 43.8%
AGE GROUPS
36-45 29.8%
46-55 26.0%
26-35 24.5%
56-65 12.5%
Others 4.7%
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
$50-100K 37.4%
$100-150K 25.6%
$0-50k 14.7%
$200+ 11.7%
$150-200 10.6%
HIGHEST DEGREE ATTAINED
Bachelors 44.7%
Masters 23.1%
No degree 13.2%
Associates 10.4%
PhD 8.6%
About the NHPO:
The National Hispanic Professional Organization (NHPO) is a networking, non-profit, membership-based organization that provides a myriad of educational seminars and professional development training to foster and promote self improvement, professional advancement and personal achievement. Founded January 1, 2004, in Houston, Texas the NHPO currently has twenty rapidly-booming chapters in nine states and is projected to add several more chapters in 2009.
http://www.nhpo.us
About the carreñogroup:
carreñogroup is an award-winning, Latino-owned public affairs firm based in the Southwest United States – the business, cultural and political heartland of American Latinos. For the past several years, the Houston Business Journal has ranked carreñogroup as one of the top PR firms in its market and in 2007 carreñogroup became a partner firm of the Worldcom Public Relations Group, the world’s leading partnership of independently owned public relations agencies with offices in 94 cities on five continents.
http://www.carrenogroup.com
disclosure statement:
No member of the Executive Committee of the NHPO is under any type of retainer with the current field of mayoral candidates.
Survey was conducted via the internet with 1,011 Houstonians who were likely registered voters in the upcoming November, 2009 election. All non City of Houston voters were deleted from the results. City of Houston voters was determined by voter zip codes. The survey was conducted from July 17, 2009 to July24, 2009.
The carreñogroup is currently engaged as political consultants in the up coming elections.
