{"id":21949,"date":"2010-09-27T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=21949"},"modified":"2010-09-27T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:48:57","slug":"martinez-and-denish-are-tied-new-dem-poll-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/09\/martinez-and-denish-are-tied-new-dem-poll-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez and Denish are tied, new Dem poll says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18679\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18679\" title=\"Martinez, Denish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Martinez-Denish1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Martinez (left, courtesy photo) and Diane Denish (photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Days after both gubernatorial campaigns released polls showing Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a> in the lead, a new poll conducted for a Democratic group has Martinez and Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/\">Diane Denish<\/a> tied.<\/p>\n<p>The new poll has both candidates at 46 percent with 7 percent of voters undecided. The poll, conducted by the left-leaning firm Third Eye Strategies between Tuesday and Thursday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/static\/PPM153_gov.html\">the poll memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Martinez campaign released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/09\/martinez-leads-by-10-points-in-new-poll\/\">an internal poll<\/a> showing Martinez leading by 10 points. The Denish campaign responded by releasing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/09\/denish%e2%80%99s-internal-poll-has-martinez-leading-by-5\/\">its own internal poll<\/a> showing Martinez leading by 5 points.<\/p>\n<p>Both campaigns\u2019 polls were conducted earlier in the month. The Third Eye Strategies poll, conducted for the left-leaning Vote New Mexico PAC, was released today by the Democratic Governors Association. The DGA said the poll shows that Denish is rebounding.<\/p>\n<p>The poll memo states that the race is \u201chighly competitive,\u201d with Denish winning 84 percent of registered Democrats and Martinez winning 91 percent of registered Republicans. It states that Denish had the support of 61 percent of Hispanics to Martinez\u2019s 30 percent.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Independents were split \u2013 36 percent for Martinez, 35 percent for Denish and 29 percent undecided.<\/p>\n<p>The poll found that 51 percent of voters have a favorable impression of both Denish and Martinez, while slightly more \u2013 42 percent \u2013 view Denish unfavorably, compared to 38 percent for Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>The memo suggests that Denish\u2019s recent attack line \u2013 \u201cDenish on the side of families, Martinez on the side of powerful interests\u201d \u2013 is \u201cresonating with New Mexico voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Denish can keep her high level support with Democrats, turn them out, and win over undecided DTS voters, it\u2019s difficult to see a clear path to victory for Martinez given the way registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans in New Mexico,\u201d the memo from Third Eye Strategies\u2019 Stephen Clermont states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after both gubernatorial campaigns released polls showing Republican Susana Martinez in the lead, a new poll conducted for a Democratic group has Martinez and Democrat Diane Denish tied.<\/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-21949","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\/21949","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=21949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}