{"id":22165,"date":"2010-10-05T08:33:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T14:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=22165"},"modified":"2010-10-05T08:33:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T14:33:58","slug":"king-maintaining-a-big-lead-in-ag-race-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/10\/king-maintaining-a-big-lead-in-ag-race-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"King maintaining a big lead in AG race, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21816\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21816\" title=\"King, Gary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/King-Gary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary King<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/garyking2010.com\/\">Gary King<\/a> is maintaining a large lead in his race to keep his job as attorney general, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/052312955112010attorneygen10-05-10.htm\">Albuquerque Journal poll<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<p>King leads his Republican opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattchandler2010.com\/\">Matt Chandler<\/a> by 20 points, 52 percent to 32 percent, with 16 percent undecided in the poll that was released today.<\/p>\n<p>King led in a Journal poll five weeks ago by 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>The new survey, conducted Sept. 27-30 by Research &amp; Polling Inc. for the Journal, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>To make this a race, Journal pollster Brian Sanderoff was quoted as saying, Chandler will have to \u201cnot only pick up undecideds, but actually convert some King support to Chandler support. \u2026 To do that, you\u2019d have to run some hard-hitting attack ads or comparative ads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We haven\u2019t seen any ads like that yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Gary King is maintaining a large lead in his race to keep his job as attorney general, an Albuquerque Journal poll found.<\/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-22165","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\/22165","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=22165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}