{"id":1965,"date":"2007-07-11T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/poll-richardson-at-4-percent-in-obamas-home-state\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T22:22:00","slug":"poll-richardson-at-4-percent-in-obamas-home-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/poll-richardson-at-4-percent-in-obamas-home-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Richardson at 4 percent in Obama’s home state"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A new poll shows Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a> gaining little ground over the last six months in Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> home state of Illinois<\/st1:state>, whose primary is important because of its early date \u2013 Feb. 5 \u2013 and the Chicago<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> media market. <\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has spent little time in the state since jumping into the race on Jan. 21, so the new American Research Group poll<\/a> isn\u2019t a surprise.<\/p>\n

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The poll, conducted July 6-9, has Obama in the lead with the support of 37 percent of likely Democratic primary voters. Hillary Clinton<\/a> is in second with 33 percent, John Edwards<\/a> is third with 10 percent and Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is fourth with 4 percent.<\/p>\n

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Twelve percent said they are undecided in the poll, which surveyed 600 people and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.<\/p>\n

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The last time the company polled Illinois<\/st1:state>, in January, Obama was at 36 percent, Clinton<\/st1:city> was at 30 percent, Edwards was at 5 percent and Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> was a 3 percent and tied with Joe Biden<\/a>, who is at 1 percent in the newest poll.<\/p>\n

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An interesting comparison<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> is drawing some comparison to baseball legend and pariah \u201cShoeless\u201d Joe Jackson<\/a> in a new Associated Press<\/a> article. Richardson<\/st1:city> toured the site today where the 1989 movie Field of Dreams<\/a> was filmed and told the news service he would consider pardoning Jackson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n

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Jackson and seven other members of the White Sox were banned from baseball for life after a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, though some historians say he was innocent.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was asked if I would consider pardoning \u2018Shoeless\u2019 Joe Jackson, and the answer is yes. I\u2019ll consider it, if Scooter Libby can get off the hook,\u201d the news service quoted Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> as saying.<\/p>\n

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The article then compared the two:<\/p>\n

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\u201cLike \u2018Shoeless\u2019 Joe, Richardson<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s baseball career has been the subject of debate. Richardson had maintained that he was drafted in 1966 by the Kansas City – now Oakland – Athletics, based on a program from a summer league team he played on that said he was \u2018Drafted by K.C.,\u2019\u201d the article states. \u201cIn 2005, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> acknowledged he hadn\u2019t been drafted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cA Richardson aide said Wednesday that he was offered a $25,000 signing bonus by a scout for the Houston Colt .45\u2019s\/Astros organization in the mid-1960s,\u201d the article states. \u201cHe said his father insisted he go to college instead.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The article then goes on to detail Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> playing catch with two high-school brothers and taking a few swings with a bat \u2013 one of them sending a ball into the thigh of a bystander who was not hurt \u2013 before visiting with the owners of the movie site.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> told the news service he has seen Field of Dreams 18 times, and it\u2019s his second-favorite movie behind <\/span>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new poll shows Gov. Bill Richardson gaining little ground over the last six months in Barack Obama\u2019s home state of Illinois, whose primary is important because of its early date \u2013 Feb. 5 \u2013 and the Chicago media market. Richardson has spent little time in the state since jumping into the race on Jan. […]<\/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-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","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=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}