More than 1, 000 readers vote each day on the blog's temperature-taking survey about the perceived prospects of the team, said blogger Mike Axisa.

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On April 21st Stephen Klineberg, a sociologist at Rice University, brought out the 2010 edition of his Houston Area Survey, an annual measure of the civic temperature.

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