{"id":13671,"date":"2010-02-23T23:51:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=13671"},"modified":"2010-02-24T20:55:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:55:23","slug":"guv%e2%80%99s-approval-rating-tanks-dem-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/guv%e2%80%99s-approval-rating-tanks-dem-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv\u2019s approval rating tanks, Dem poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8142\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8142\" title=\"Richardson-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson-41-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson-41-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Richardson-41.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\">Bill Richardson<\/a> has become one of the least popular governors in the nation, according to a new survey conducted by a Democratic firm.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found that 63 percent of the state\u2019s voters disapprove of the job Richardson is doing as governor, while only 28 percent approve. Even among Democrats, 42 percent approve of the job he\u2019s doing while more \u2013 47 percent \u2013 disapprove.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to <a href=\"http:\/\/publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/richardsons-fall.html\">a preview<\/a> of a larger poll of New Mexico voters conducted by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm, that\u2019s scheduled to be released today. The wider poll will have both good and bad news for New Mexico Democrats, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ppppolls\/status\/9540447796\">a tweet<\/a> from Public Policy Polling states.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are so bad, the preview blog posting states, that they \u201csuggest Richardson\u2019s days as an elected official in New Mexico are over for good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The margin of error in the poll and other information wasn\u2019t released in the preview blog.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson has been bogged down in scandal for more than a year, and it cost him his nomination to be U.S. commerce secretary. That has certainly affected his approval rating. But there\u2019s something else interesting cited in the preview of the poll:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cRichardson\u2019s loss of popularity continues a trend of the 2008 Democratic also rans either going into the administration or having their political careers go downhill. Joe Biden is Vice President, Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State, and Tom Vilsack is Secretary of Agriculture. They\u2019re all doing fine. But Chris Dodd and Evan Bayh both had to retire once their prospects for reelection dimmed, these kinds of numbers suggest Richardson\u2019s days as an elected official in New Mexico are over for good (not that there\u2019s a clear opening any time in the future anyway with the state having 2 Democratic Senators), and John Edwards, well no explanation needed. Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel have largely returned to the obscurity they came from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s possible with the exception of Kucinich that none of the Democrats who ran unsuccessfully for the nomination in 2008 will win an election ever again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s the preview blog posting that states that Richardson \u201chas become one of the least popular Governors in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eleven months ago, Richardson\u2019s approval rating was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/guvs-approval-stays-below-50-percent\/\">42 percent<\/a> in an independent poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Richardson has become one of the least popular governors in the nation, according to a new survey conducted by a Democratic firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[112,107],"class_list":["post-13671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-richardson","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}