{"id":26076,"date":"2011-02-14T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=26076"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:00:57","slug":"martinez-udall-are-popular-richardson-isn%e2%80%99t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/02\/martinez-udall-are-popular-richardson-isn%e2%80%99t\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez, Udall are popular; Richardson isn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A new poll finds Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\" target=\"_blank\">Susana Martinez<\/a> and U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/tomudall.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a> enjoying high approval ratings, while former Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Richardson\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> approval rating remains dismal.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez\u2019s approval was 53 percent in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/pdf\/PPP_Release_NM_0211.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the survey<\/a> from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling. Some 29 percent disapproved of the job she\u2019s doing, and 18 percent said they don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>Udall\u2019s approval was even higher \u2013 56 percent approved, 31 percent did not, and 13 percent said they don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson, on the other hand, was a different story. Only 34 percent said they approve of the job he did as governor, while 55 percent disapprove, and 11 percent don\u2019t know. Half of those surveyed said they would definitely not vote for him again, while 35 percent said they would consider it and 13 percent said they definitely would vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>Public Policy Polling surveyed 545 New Mexico voters from Feb. 4-6. The survey had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The group had already released earlier numbers from the same poll on the approval ratings for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/02\/poll-bingaman-in-good-position-if-he-runs-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/02\/poll-new-mexico-looking-good-for-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a>, whose seats are both up for grabs next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll finds Gov. Susana Martinez and U.S. Sen. Tom Udall enjoying high approval ratings, while former Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s approval rating remains dismal.<\/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":[107,116],"class_list":["post-26076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26076","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=26076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}