{"id":21100,"date":"2010-08-31T10:43:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=21100"},"modified":"2010-08-31T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T17:48:06","slug":"king-leads-chandler-in-two-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/king-leads-chandler-in-two-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"King leads Chandler in two polls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gary King<\/p><\/div>\n

Attorney General Gary King<\/a> has big leads over challenger Matt Chandler<\/a> in two newly released polls of the race.<\/p>\n

I already mentioned the first poll<\/a> in an article published Monday<\/a> \u2013 an internal poll released by the King campaign that had King, the Democrat, leading the Republican Chandler by 19 percentage points. Today, the Albuquerque Journal released an independent poll<\/a> that had King leading by 15 percentage points.<\/p>\n

The poll released by King\u2019s campaign had him leading with the support of 47 percent of likely voters to Chandler\u2019s 28, with 25 percent of those surveyed undecided. The survey of 600 likely voters was conducted Aug. 2-4 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.<\/p>\n

The Journal poll had King leading 48 percent to 33 percent with 19 percent undecided. The survey of 942 likely voters, conducted by Research and Polling Inc. from Aug. 23-27, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.<\/p>\n

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Matt Chandler<\/p><\/div>\n

Some highlights from King\u2019s poll, which was released to NMPolitics.net:<\/p>\n

\u201cKing\u2019s support is not only intense, it is broad-based. King posts an overwhelming 30-point lead among independent voters, the critical subgroup that will determine the outcome of this election. King wins independent voters, 47% to 17%.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere King translates his advantage in name identification into votes, Chandler faces an uphill battle in just getting recognized. Roughly two-thirds of voters (65%) are familiar with Gary King.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust 17% of voters statewide can say the same for Chandler. This means that before Chandler can make his case against King, he will first have to spend precious resources defining himself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And highlights from the Journal poll:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe poll showed King with the support of 71 percent of the Democrats polled and Chandler with the support of 71 percent of the Republicans polled.<\/p>\n

\u201cKing also racked up support from 16 percent of the Republicans, while Chandler had 10 percent of Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Among independent voters polled, King had 40 percent and Chandler 27 percent \u2014 with 31 percent undecided.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe candidates were neck-and-neck among Anglo voters: each had 41 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there was a big gap between the candidates in the category of Hispanic voters: King had 62 percent of Hispanics polled, and Chandler 22 percent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Journal poll also had King leading in the north-central region of the state and Chandler leading on the east side of the state.<\/p>\n

The bottom line, from Journal pollster Brian Sanderoff:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenger hasn\u2019t spent much yet. He\u2019s not well-known around the state. There\u2019s little reason to expect him to perform well among Democrats at this time. Gary\u2019s been around the block, he\u2019s from a prominent political family.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Updated, 11:45 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chandler had this to say about the Journal poll:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a career politician with a well-known family name, King has been campaigning for the last\u00a0three decades. But this election isn\u2019t about family names; it is about fresh direction and the future of our state. And today\u2019s findings reveal that with all of King\u2019s advantages, he still fails to secure the support of the majority of New Mexicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is largely in part because for far too long, my opponent has turned a blind eye to who-you-know politics and has failed to make good on the promise he made four years ago to aggressively root out corruption. New Mexicans realize that for all of his years in office, this has yet to happen \u2013 and isn\u2019t likely to happen during the last two months of King\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I travel across the state, sharing my vision of change and my unwavering commitment to ridding this state of corruption, our message continues to resonate with New Mexicans of all walks of life. With their support, I am confident that\u00a0on Nov. 2\u00a0our state will elect a new attorney general.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED: Attorney General Gary King has big leads over challenger Matt Chandler in two newly released polls of the race.<\/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-21100","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\/21100","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=21100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}