{"id":18727,"date":"2010-06-24T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=18727"},"modified":"2010-06-24T11:51:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T17:51:21","slug":"guv%e2%80%99s-race-remains-a-dead-heat-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/06\/guv%e2%80%99s-race-remains-a-dead-heat-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv\u2019s race remains a dead heat, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18679\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18679\" title=\"Martinez, Denish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Martinez-Denish1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Martinez (left, courtesy photo) and Diane Denish (photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new poll finds that the New Mexico governor\u2019s race remains a statistical tie.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found 44 percent of likely New Mexico voters supporting Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a> and 43 percent supporting Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/\">Diane Denish<\/a>, with 13 percent undecided. The survey, conducted by the GOP firm Magellan Strategies on Monday, surveyed 542 likely voters and has a margin of error of 4.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the poll from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magellanstrategies.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/new-mexico-governor-survey-62310\/\">Magellan\u2019s blog<\/a> and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magellanstrategies.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Magellan-New-Mexico-Governor-Survey-Release-062310.pdf\">a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Martinez led Denish among men by 17 points while Denish led among women by 12 points. Some 45 percent of voters said they have a favorable opinion of Martinez, while 34 percent had an unfavorable view. 40 percent of voters had a favorable opinion of Denish, while 41 percent had an unfavorable view.<\/p>\n<p><em>This posting has been updated to indicate that Magellan is a GOP firm.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: A new poll finds that the New Mexico governor\u2019s race remains a statistical tie.<\/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":[108,107],"class_list":["post-18727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727","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=18727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}