{"id":2059,"date":"2007-08-03T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/new-poll-has-guv-way-behind-big-three-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T16:30:00","slug":"new-poll-has-guv-way-behind-big-three-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/new-poll-has-guv-way-behind-big-three-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"New poll has guv way behind Big Three in Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RrNYbkuF35I\/AAAAAAAADBw\/AyY2igS9o08\/s1600-h\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RrNYbkuF35I\/AAAAAAAADBw\/AyY2igS9o08\/s200\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094512834222874514\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A new poll of likely Democratic voters in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> has the three frontrunners in the race statistically tied and Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> a distant fourth.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That\u2019s bad news for the governor, who earlier this week was nearly tied with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> for third place in another poll in that state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/US\/1042a1IADemCaucus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News\/Washington Post poll<\/a>, released today, has Obama leading with 27 percent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnedwards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Edwards<\/a> tied at 26 percent and Richardson with 11 percent. The survey of 500 likely Democratic caucus voters in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> was conducted July 26-31 and has a margin of error of 4.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">An <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/guv-at-obamas-heels-in-iowa-edwards-up.html\">American Research Group poll<\/a> released Wednesday had <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> with 30 percent, Edwards with 21 percent, Obama with 15 percent and Richardson with 13 percent. It was conducted at the same time as the poll released today and had a similar margin of error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So, clearly, at least one of these polls is wrong. The American Research Group poll is more in line with other recent polls, and Obama has been in third place in just about every previous poll in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. The newest poll\u2019s results are shocking and great news for his campaign if they\u2019re accurate, but what would have caused such a spike in support for Obama?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We\u2019ll see which poll is more accurate as time goes on and other polls are conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll of likely Democratic voters in Iowa has the three frontrunners in the race statistically tied and Gov. Bill Richardson a distant fourth. That\u2019s bad news for the governor, who earlier this week was nearly tied with Barack Obama for third place in another poll in that state. The ABC News\/Washington Post poll, [&hellip;]<\/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-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","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=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}