{"id":2030,"date":"2007-07-27T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/richardson-within-striking-distance-of-obama-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T21:22:00","slug":"richardson-within-striking-distance-of-obama-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/richardson-within-striking-distance-of-obama-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson within striking distance of Obama in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A new poll released Thursday has Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a> at 11 percent and within striking distance of the third-place Barack Obama<\/a> in Iowa, the state that hold\u2019s the nation\u2019s first presidential nominating contest on Jan. 14. <\/p>\n

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Eleven percent is the highest Richardson<\/st1:city> has climbed in any independent poll of likely Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> Democratic primary voters, though a poll conducted for his campaign<\/a> a month ago had his support at 13 percent.<\/p>\n

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The news that Richardson is within striking distance of the third-place candidate in Iowa comes as Richardson has recently passed John Edwards<\/a> to become the third-place candidate in the newest poll<\/a> in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

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The two states are the most critical to race and are the focus of Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

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The newest poll<\/a>, conducted by Research 2000<\/a> for KCCI Channel 8<\/a> in Des Moines, has Edwards at 27 percent, up 1 percent from the group\u2019s last poll in May; Hillary Clinton<\/a> at 22 percent, down 6 percent from May; Obama at 16 percent, down 6 percent from May; and Richardson gaining 4 percentage points from his 7-percent support in May. Some 16 percent were undecided.<\/p>\n

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The poll was conducted July 23-25, surveyed 600 likely Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> Democratic primary voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis poll is consistent with the momentum we\u2019re seeing on the ground in Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>,\u201d Richardson Campaign Manager Dave Contarino said in a news release. \u201cThe more Iowa<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> voters get to know Governor Richardson, the more they like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Guv in third place in Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:state><\/span><\/p>\n

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Another poll released Thursday has Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s support at 9 percent in Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<\/p>\n

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The American Research Group poll<\/a> has Clinton at 39 percent, Obama at 25 percent, Richardson in third place and Edwards in fourth at 8 percent. Some 16 percent were undecided.<\/p>\n

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Clinton<\/st1:city>\u2019s support grew 6 percent from February, the last time the company surveyed Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. Obama\u2019s grew 1 percent, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s grew 5 percent, and Edwards\u2019 dropped 5 percent. I\u2019m not aware of Richardson<\/st1:city> being in third place or better in polls in any states other than New Hampshire<\/st1:state>, Arizona<\/st1:state> and New Mexico<\/st1:state>, so the move ahead of Edwards in Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> \u2013 the first in any independent poll \u2013 is significant.<\/p>\n

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The poll, conducted July 23-26, surveyed 600 likely Democratic primary voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.<\/p>\n

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While we\u2019re on the subject of Richardson<\/st1:city>, the Albuquerque Journal<\/a> has an interesting article today on his flip-flop on a gun-control issue, and the New York Times<\/a> has him taking his first official stand on the proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation in Northern New Mexico<\/st1:place>. In short: He believes the power plant \u201cwould be a step in the wrong direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new poll released Thursday has Gov. Bill Richardson at 11 percent and within striking distance of the third-place Barack Obama in Iowa, the state that hold\u2019s the nation\u2019s first presidential nominating contest on Jan. 14. Eleven percent is the highest Richardson has climbed in any independent poll of likely Iowa Democratic primary voters, though […]<\/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-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","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=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}