{"id":2490,"date":"2007-11-06T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/silva-small-could-avoid-runoffs\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T04:15:00","slug":"silva-small-could-avoid-runoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/silva-small-could-avoid-runoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Silva, Small could avoid runoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With only one polling place to count each in districts 1 and 4, <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/former-county-commissioner-to-challenge.html\">Miguel Silva<\/a> has secured 520 votes \u2013 or 45 percent \u2013 in the District 1 race, and <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/small-joins-race-for-open-city-council.html\">Nathan Small<\/a> has secured 486 votes \u2013 or 42 percent \u2013 in the District 4 race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In races with more than two candidates, a candidate has to win 40 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff against the second-place candidate. It\u2019s possible both will do that, and it\u2019s looking likely at this point that 12-year District 1 Councilor <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/frietze-to-seek-fourth-term-on-city.html\">Jos\u00e9 Frietze<\/a>, who is 92 votes behind Silva, is going to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only one polling place to count each in districts 1 and 4, Miguel Silva has secured 520 votes \u2013 or 45 percent \u2013 in the District 1 race, and Nathan Small has secured 486 votes \u2013 or 42 percent \u2013 in the District 4 race. In races with more than two candidates, a candidate [&hellip;]<\/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-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","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=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}