{"id":22828,"date":"2010-10-26T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=22828"},"modified":"2010-10-26T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T21:47:53","slug":"martinez-leads-by-10-in-new-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/10\/martinez-leads-by-10-in-new-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez leads by 10 in new poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21308\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21308 \" title=\"Martinez, Susana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Martinez-Susana2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Martinez (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A day after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/10\/dueling-polls-have-martinez-leading-by-1-or-8\/\">dueling polls<\/a> from the gubernatorial candidates showed Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\">Susana Martinez<\/a> leading Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\">Diane Denish<\/a> by either 1 point or eight points, a new poll has Martinez leading by 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez leads 52 percent to 42 percent in the Rasmussen Reports poll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections\/election_2010\/election_2010_governor_elections\/new_mexico\/election_2010_new_mexico_governor\">released today<\/a>. Two percent of those surveyed said they prefer another candidate, and 4 percent were undecided.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of 750 likely voters was conducted Sunday. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The results are fairly consistent with the results of other Rasmussen Reports polls conducted since August. Denish\u2019s support has ranged in that time from 41 percent to 43 percent, while Martinez\u2019s has ranged from 48 percent to 52 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s last poll of the race \u2013 conducted earlier this month \u2013 had Martinez leading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/10\/martinez-leads-by-9-in-new-poll\/\">by 9 points<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new poll\u2019s testing of Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\">Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> approval rating is an indicator of one reason why Martinez is ahead. Just 39 percent said they approve of Richardson\u2019s job performance, while 57 percent disapprove. Martinez has worked hard to tie Denish to Richardson throughout the election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez has one weakness in the poll: She has a higher percentage of soft supporters than does Denish. While 93 percent of those who said they support Denish were certain of how they\u2019ll vote, the same was true for fewer Martinez supporters \u2013 86 percent.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, Martinez\u2019s support within her own party is more solid than is Denish\u2019s in her party. While 90 percent of Republicans surveyed said they back Martinez, 73 percent of Democrats said they back Denish.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez has a four-to-one edge in the poll among voters who aren\u2019t Democrats or Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after dueling polls from the gubernatorial candidates showed Republican Susana Martinez leading Democrat Diane Denish by either 1 point or eight points, a new poll has Martinez leading by 10 points.<\/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-22828","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\/22828","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=22828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}