{"id":1981,"date":"2007-07-16T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/poll-should-make-richardson-supporters-nervous\/"},"modified":"2007-07-16T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T19:40:00","slug":"poll-should-make-richardson-supporters-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/poll-should-make-richardson-supporters-nervous\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll should make Richardson supporters nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A new poll of likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> should have supporters of Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> presidential campaign a little nervous. <\/p>\n

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The poll, conducted by Research 2000<\/a> for the Concord Monitor<\/a>, has Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> nipping at the heels of John Edwards<\/a> \u2013 at 8 percent to Edwards\u2019 10 percent \u2013 when Al Gore<\/a> is included. Eliminate Gore, who isn\u2019t running for president, and Edwards\u2019 support jumps to 15 percent. Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s support drops to 7 percent when Gore is not included in the poll.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s bad news for Richardson<\/st1:city> because other recent polls in New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> \u2013 none as recent as this \u2013 found that Richardson and Edwards were nearly tied at 8-10 percent without Gore in the running. Polls conducted for local newspapers also, in general, tend to be the most accurate.<\/p>\n

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With Gore in the race, the poll had Hillary Clinton<\/a> at 27 percent, Barack Obama<\/a> at 23 percent and Gore at 14 percent, followed by Edwards and Richardson. Without Gore in the mix, Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> led with 33 percent and Obama had 25 percent, followed by Edwards and Richardson.<\/p>\n

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The poll of 400 likely Democratic primary voters was conducted July 9-11 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent.<\/p>\n

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Following other recent polls that had the two nearly tied, many had suspected Richardson<\/st1:city> was on his way to climbing above Edwards in New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The news isn\u2019t all bad for Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. The last time the company conducted a poll was in December, and Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has jumped from 2 percent to 8 percent in the Gore-inclusive poll. Edwards has fallen in the Gore-inclusive poll from 16 percent to 10 percent.<\/p>\n

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But other, earlier polls had already confirmed Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s gains and Edwards\u2019 losses. The question is whether the new poll indicates the beginning of a climb back up for Edwards or is an anomaly.<\/p>\n

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Liberal talk show host Arnie Arnesen, interviewed for the Monitor article on the poll, said she likes Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s chances better than those of Edwards.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBill Richardson is everyone\u2019s second choice,\u201d she told the newspaper. \u201cI think it\u2019s a great place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new poll of likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire should have supporters of Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s presidential campaign a little nervous. The poll, conducted by Research 2000 for the Concord Monitor, has Richardson nipping at the heels of John Edwards \u2013 at 8 percent to Edwards\u2019 10 percent \u2013 when Al Gore is included. […]<\/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-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","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=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}