{"id":2539,"date":"2007-11-15T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/democratic-presidential-candidates-to-debate-tonight\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T14:43:00","slug":"democratic-presidential-candidates-to-debate-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/democratic-presidential-candidates-to-debate-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic presidential candidates to debate tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RzxbXDgthtI\/AAAAAAAAEBY\/YlWUMnOJ6KU\/s1600-h\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RzxbXDgthtI\/AAAAAAAAEBY\/YlWUMnOJ6KU\/s200\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133078126933149394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> and other Democratic presidential candidates will gather in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Vegas<\/st1:city>, <st1:state st=\"on\">Nev.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> tonight for the next official candidate debate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The event begins at 6 p.m. Mountain Standard Time and will be televised live on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It will be the first debate among the candidates since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> was hammered on Oct. 30 by most of her rivals and stumbled on a question about whether undocumented immigrants should be allowed to obtain state driver\u2019s licenses. She has experienced a drop in the polls since then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city>, at that debate, stood out for defending <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> while the others attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the newest poll of Nevada Democrats, conducted for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/POLITICS\/11\/14\/nevada.poll\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: none;color:#000000;\" > <\/span>CNN<\/a>, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has a huge lead. She\u2019s at 51 percent, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> is at 23 percent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnedwards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Edwards<\/a> is at 11 percent and <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is at 5 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But what really matters right now is <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, where there are two new polls. One, conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicvision.biz\/political\/iowa_poll_111407.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Strategic Vision<\/a>, has <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> at 29 percent, Obama at 27 percent, Edwards at 20 percent, Richardson at 7 percent and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joebiden.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden<\/a> at 5 percent. The other, conducted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/htdocs\/pdf\/poll_111307.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News and the New York Times<\/a>, has Clinton at 25 percent, Edwards at 23 percent, Obama at 22 percent, Richardson at 12 percent and Biden at 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Tonight\u2019s debate could give a boost to <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign, but, for that to happen, he\u2019ll have to stand out for something other than defending <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson and other Democratic presidential candidates will gather in Las Vegas, Nev. tonight for the next official candidate debate. The event begins at 6 p.m. Mountain Standard Time and will be televised live on CNN. It will be the first debate among the candidates since Hillary Clinton was hammered on Oct. 30 by [&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-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","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=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}