{"id":16795,"date":"2010-05-03T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=16795"},"modified":"2010-05-03T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:35:16","slug":"cd1-race-getting-more-competitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/cd1-race-getting-more-competitive\/","title":{"rendered":"CD1 race getting more competitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16796\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16796\" title=\"Barela, Jon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Barela-Jon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Barela<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another Washington analyst has decided that the 1st Congressional District race between Democratic incumbent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\">Martin Heinrich<\/a> and Republican challenger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonbarela.com\/\">Jon Barela<\/a> is becoming more competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Cook\u2019s publication, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/\">Cook Political Report<\/a>, last week boosted the race\u2019s rating from \u201clikely Democratic\u201d to \u201clean Democratic.\u201d That\u2019s the middle of three left-leaning rankings, with the most competitive being \u201cDemocratic toss up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you subscribe, you can read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/node\/6498\">here<\/a>. According to a news release from Barela, Cook cited Barela\u2019s \u201ccrossover appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is shaping up to be a competitive race,\u201d Cook wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Also last month, Washington analyst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/analyst-says-pearce-favored-in-cd2-race\/\">Stuart Rothenberg<\/a> wrote that Heinrich is still the favorite in the race, \u201cbut the change in the national mood and an unusually appealing GOP challenger make this definitely a race to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Washington analyst has decided that the 1st Congressional District race between Democratic incumbent Martin Heinrich and Republican challenger Jon Barela is becoming more competitive.<\/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":[108,116],"class_list":["post-16795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16795","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=16795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}