{"id":2446,"date":"2007-10-30T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/guv-defends-clinton-as-his-poll-numbers-drop\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T19:22:00","slug":"guv-defends-clinton-as-his-poll-numbers-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/guv-defends-clinton-as-his-poll-numbers-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv defends Clinton as his poll numbers drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The bad news continues for Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> presidential campaign. I wrote on Monday<\/a> about his decline in the polls. Today, three new polls further confirm his sinking support. <\/p>\n

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To top it off, the National Journal<\/a> has moved Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> from fourth in its rankings among Democratic presidential contenders to sixth. In addition to being behind Hillary Clinton<\/a>, Barack Obama<\/a> and John Edwards<\/a>, he\u2019s now also ranked by the publication behind Chris Dodd<\/a> and Joe Biden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe issue we have with Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is that he\u2019s a terrible liberal; it\u2019s not in the guy\u2019s DNA,\u201d the National Journal states. \u201cHe\u2019s trying to become the anti-war candidate but doesn\u2019t seem like a credible messenger.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Three American Research Group polls released today have Richardson<\/st1:city> at 7 percent in Iowa<\/a>, 5 percent in New Hampshire<\/a> and 1 percent in South Carolina<\/a>. All three are drops from the group\u2019s September polls. Meanwhile, Biden has climbed to 5 percent in Iowa<\/st1:state>, 4 percent in New Hampshire<\/st1:state> and 6 percent in South Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> in the new polls.<\/p>\n

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In the face of all the bad news, Richardson came to Clinton\u2019s defense today, saying he regrets the \u201cnegative tone\u201d Obama and Edwards have taken in accusing her of being too close to lobbyists, according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think that Senators Obama and Edwards should concentrate on the issues and not on attacking Senator Clinton,\u201d the news service quoted Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> as saying. \u201cIt\u2019s OK to get aggressive on the issues, but to make personal attacks on somebody\u2019s attachments to lobbyists, that\u2019s not the kind of positive tone I want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Richardson \u2013 a guy who has accused all three frontrunners in recent months of deceiving the American people with their Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> plans \u2013 also predicted he\u2019ll win the nomination because he\u2019s running a positive campaign.<\/p>\n

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But his defense of Clinton<\/st1:city> is raising eyebrows in part because it comes on the same day that Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, on her campaign\u2019s official news Web site<\/a>, took the unusual step of putting up video of and information about the attacks by Obama and Edwards. Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> also included a link to a news release from her campaign that essentially says she\u2019s being unfairly attacked.<\/p>\n

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Richardson and Clinton defending Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> from attacks on the same day? While Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is sinking in the polls? What does it mean?<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Maybe nothing. Maybe much more than that. It will be interesting to see whether the two are chummy at tonight\u2019s debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bad news continues for Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s presidential campaign. I wrote on Monday about his decline in the polls. Today, three new polls further confirm his sinking support. To top it off, the National Journal has moved Richardson from fourth in its rankings among Democratic presidential contenders to sixth. In addition to being behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","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=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}