The reason why the appeal to poll (a modified version of appeal to majority) arguments are so terrible is because polls lack the sort of realities that people have to deal with. When polled, 91% of Canadians wanted to get rid of the plastic film in meat packaging. When polled they were only willing to pay an average of $0.03 per package of meat for the change. The cheapest alternative was $0.80.

The poll data for this solar issue can be found here. What you can find here (Page 5) is that Texans actually want to expand the use of all energy sources except for coal and natural gas. Support for renewables was very unifying for Democrats but very divisive for Republicans. This might have been a fault of the polling questions. One of the polling questions was "Do you want to become reliant on FORMOFENERGY." Most Republicans probably don't want to be seen as reliant on anything or anyone because independence is usually one of their values.

The telling poll result is that over 80% of Texans want to spend surplus dollars on expanding natural gas and diesel fired plants.

So anyway, I wouldn't count this poll as being completely legitimate. The phrasing of the questions may have resulted in people answering No to questions they would have answered Yes to if it was just "do we need more" or "should we build more."