Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: New poll puts Texas in Cruz control

While there is scant presidential polling on this Thursday, what little exists looks pretty solid for Barack Obama, on balance.

However, that's not the headline story today. The headline is that the right wing of the GOP looks primed to pull off a coup over another establishment Republican candidate. And this time, it does not appear likely to bite them on the ass in the general election.

On to the numbers:

PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION TRIAL HEATS:

NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Obama d. Romney (47-44)

NATIONAL (Pew): Obama d. Romney (50-43)

NATIONAL (Rasmussen Tracking): Romney d. Obama (46-45)

NORTH CAROLINA (Myers Research for Project New America'D): Romney d. Obama (49-48)

DOWNBALLOT POLLING:

HI-SEN (Benenson Strategy Group for Hirono): Mazie Hirono (D) 53, Linda Lingle (R) 41

HI-SEN (Voter/Consumer Research for Lingle): Ed Case (D) 41, Linda Lingle (R) 40; Lingle 45, Mazie Hirono (D) 40

HI-SEN'D (Voter/Consumer Research for Lingle): Mazie Hirono 40, Ed Case 39

NV-04 (Tarrance Group for Tarkanian): Danny Tarkanian (R) 47, Steven Horsford (D) 41

ND-SEN (Rasmussen): Rick Berg (R) 49, Heidi Heitkamp (D) 40

OK-02'R (Cole Hargraves Snodgrass for Mullin): Markwayne Mullin 57, George Faught 20

TX-SEN'R (PPP): Ted Cruz 49, David Dewhurst 44

TX-SEN'R (Wenzel Strategies for Citizens United): Ted Cruz 47, David Dewhurst 38

A few thoughts, as always, await you just past the jump ...