{"id":26115,"date":"2011-02-15T11:12:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=26115"},"modified":"2011-02-15T11:29:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:29:04","slug":"nm-republicans-not-sold-on-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/02\/nm-republicans-not-sold-on-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"NM Republicans not sold on Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10539\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10539\" title=\"Johnson-Gary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Johnson-Gary1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_E._Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Johnson<\/a> isn\u2019t the current frontrunner even in his home state of New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/pdf\/PPP_Release_NM_0210.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the newest survey<\/a> from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of 357 \u201cusual\u201d GOP primary voters in New Mexico found that 20 percent prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarah_Palin\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Palin<\/a>, 17 percent prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Huckabee\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Huckabee<\/a>, and 16 percent prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a>. Johnson and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newt_Gingrich\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> each had the support of 13 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted Feb. 4-6, has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The field remains wide open, and anyone could gain ground. But it\u2019s noteworthy that, when former Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Richardson\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> ran for president, he was favored in at least two polls (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/richardson-winning-in-n-m-poll-but-not-by-much\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/09\/n-m-dems-like-guv-dont-think-hell-win-nomination\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) of New Mexico Democratic primary voters. He dropped out of the race before the New Mexico primary, however.<\/p>\n<p>The new poll also tested what N.M. Republicans think about potential Senate primary candidates. Johnson finished second, with the support of 27 percent of those surveyed, while <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heather_Wilson\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> finished first with 35 percent. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Pearce\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> came in third at 17 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Gary Johnson isn\u2019t the current frontrunner even in his home state of New Mexico.<\/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":[156,107,116],"class_list":["post-26115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26115","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=26115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}