{"id":23069,"date":"2010-11-02T20:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T02:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=23069"},"modified":"2010-11-02T23:09:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T05:09:05","slug":"martinez-wins-governor%e2%80%99s-race-tv-stations-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/11\/martinez-wins-governor%e2%80%99s-race-tv-stations-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez wins governor\u2019s race, TV stations say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23070\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23070\" title=\"Martinez2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Martinez2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martinez, speaking to supporters in Las Cruces earlier today. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CNN, NBC and CBS have called the New Mexico governor\u2019s race for Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\">Susana Martinez<\/a> \u2013 making her the first Hispanic woman to be elected governor in any state in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Governors Association, which gave $1.3 million to Martinez\u2019s campaign, was also declaring victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSusana Martinez was a star for Republicans this cycle,\u201d RGA chairman\u00a0Haley Barbour said in a news release. \u201cShe handily won a very Democratic state by focusing on her message and the issues important to New Mexico.\u00a0The Democrats\u00a0threw everything they had at Susana because they recognized the bright future she has in the\u00a0Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to KOB-TV in Albuquerque, Martinez leads Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\">Diane Denish<\/a> 55 percent to 45 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The RGA has been paying attention to this race for a reason. The district attorney from Las Cruces, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/news\/ci_16418689\">grew up in El Paso<\/a>, is now officially a national political star.<\/p>\n<p>Her standing as the first Hispanic woman to be elected to a governorship has caught the attention of Washington insiders. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/29\/AR2010102905734.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> labeled Martinez this weekend as one of the \u201ctwo freshest Hispanic faces in national politics\u201d and a \u201cpotential Republican vice presidential nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN, NBC and CBS have called the New Mexico governor\u2019s race for Republican Susana Martinez \u2013 making her the first Hispanic woman to be elected governor in any state in the nation.<\/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-23069","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\/23069","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=23069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}