{"id":1739,"date":"2007-05-17T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/richardson-surges-to-10-percent-in-new-hampshire\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T20:50:00","slug":"richardson-surges-to-10-percent-in-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/richardson-surges-to-10-percent-in-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson surges to 10 percent in New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> support in New Hampshire<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> has surged to 10 percent in the newest poll, up from 2 percent six weeks ago. <\/p>\n

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\u201cOf greatest significance (in the poll) is the move of Bill Richardson into double-digits from merely a blip on the screen,\u201d said pollster John Zogby, whose company released the newest poll<\/a> today. \u201cHe is now a player in all this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Zogby International poll follows weeks of slow climbs by Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> in surveys in several other states. Recent polls have placed Richardson<\/st1:city> at 6 percent in Nevada<\/st1:state> and 5 percent in Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> was the first Democratic presidential candidate to run television ads. He has run them in Iowa<\/st1:state> and New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, the two states where he\u2019s seen the greatest gains. His new, humorous ads, which you can view by clicking here<\/a>, have been running in both states in recent days.<\/p>\n

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The New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> poll, conducted Tuesday and Wednesday, surveyed 503 Democratic primary voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percent.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> appears to have gained mostly at the expense of John Edwards<\/a>, whose support fell from 23 percent on April 3 to 15 percent in the newest poll. Hillary Clinton<\/a> was at 28 percent, down from 29 percent in April, and Barack Obama<\/a> was at 26 percent, up from 23 percent in April.<\/p>\n

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No other candidate had more than 4 percent, and undecideds accounted for 15 percent in the poll.<\/p>\n

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This is a surge many who know Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> predicted. It\u2019s fair to say, at this point, that Clinton and Obama are the top-tier candidates in New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, while Edwards and Richardson are in the second-tier and everyone else is in the third-tier.<\/p>\n

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Zogby noted, however, that Edwards has the lead in Iowa, which holds the first presidential nominating contest under the current schedule, and said he would \u201cget a bump\u201d in New Hampshire if he holds on to win there.<\/p>\n

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The news of Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s gain comes on the day that he unveiled his energy policy in a speech in Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. You can read a news article about it by clicking here<\/a> and the speech by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> also plans to move from the exploratory committee phase to an official candidacy on Monday.<\/p>\n

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This is about the time the national press should start paying more attention to the New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> governor\u2019s presidential campaign. That means he\u2019ll get a lot more attention, but it also means greater scrutiny.<\/p>\n

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On the Republican side, the Zogby poll had Mitt Romney<\/a> at 35 percent in New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, up from 25 percent in April. John McCain<\/a> and Rudy Giuliani<\/a> were both at 19 percent \u2013 a 6-percent drop for McCain and no change for Giuliani from April.<\/p>\n

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No other GOP candidate had significant support or showed a significant gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s support in New Hampshire has surged to 10 percent in the newest poll, up from 2 percent six weeks ago. \u201cOf greatest significance (in the poll) is the move of Bill Richardson into double-digits from merely a blip on the screen,\u201d said pollster John Zogby, whose company released the newest poll today. […]<\/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-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}