{"id":1686,"date":"2007-05-07T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/richardson-gains-in-newest-nevada-poll-but-shifting-primary-calendar-means-he-needs-to-climb-faster\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:10:00","slug":"richardson-gains-in-newest-nevada-poll-but-shifting-primary-calendar-means-he-needs-to-climb-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/richardson-gains-in-newest-nevada-poll-but-shifting-primary-calendar-means-he-needs-to-climb-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson gains in newest Nevada poll, but shifting primary calendar means he needs to climb faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A week after a poll showed support for Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> presidential run jump in Iowa<\/st1:state>, another finds him creeping up in Nevada<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>. <\/p>\n

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The new poll has Richardson<\/st1:city> at 6 percent in Nevada<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> \u2013 better than the 2-3 percent reflected in previous polls, but still far short of any of the frontrunners in the race to be the Democrats\u2019 2008 presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

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Last week, a poll<\/a> showed support for Richardson<\/st1:city> in Iowa<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> jump from 1 percent to 5 percent.<\/p>\n

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The Nevada poll, conducted for the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a>, had Hillary Clinton<\/a> way ahead of everyone else with 37 percent. It had John Edwards<\/a> at 13 percent and Barack Obama<\/a> at 12 percent.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to figure out how to interpret this poll because it allowed people to select Al Gore<\/a>, who isn\u2019t running for president, and 9 percent said they support him.<\/p>\n

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The poll, conducted April 30-May 2, surveyed 300 voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percent.<\/p>\n

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Though the poll shows a gain for Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, it isn\u2019t cause for his campaign to be ecstatic. He\u2019s still within the margin of error and, more importantly, Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is gaining in a number of important states.<\/p>\n

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She\u2019s losing ground in Iowa<\/st1:state>, but Clinton<\/st1:city> has gained in polls recently in California<\/st1:state>, Florida<\/st1:state>, Nevada<\/st1:state>, New Hampshire<\/st1:state>, Ohio<\/st1:state> and Pennsylvania<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. Richardson<\/st1:city> has staked his presidential bid<\/a> on four states that until last week held the earliest primaries \u2013 Iowa<\/st1:state>, Nevada<\/st1:state>, New Hampshire<\/st1:state> and South Carolina<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>. Last week, however, Florida moved its contest<\/a> up to Jan. 29 \u2013 the same day as South Carolina\u2019s \u2013 and it\u2019s becoming increasingly impossible to predict which states will matter most in determining which candidate gets the party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n

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When it appeared he would only need to compete in four, small states, it seemed that Richardson<\/st1:city> could keep up with Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and other frontrunners. But having to compete in the four smaller states plus a number of large states that plan to hold their primaries in late January or early February makes it increasingly difficult for Richardson to keep up with candidates who have more money and larger organizations.<\/p>\n

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So the gains in Iowa<\/st1:state> and Nevada<\/st1:state> are important for Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign, but he needs more positive movement in the polls, and it needs to happen quickly, if he\u2019s to have any shot at the nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A week after a poll showed support for Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s presidential run jump in Iowa, another finds him creeping up in Nevada. The new poll has Richardson at 6 percent in Nevada \u2013 better than the 2-3 percent reflected in previous polls, but still far short of any of the frontrunners in the race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","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=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}