{"id":2625,"date":"2007-12-10T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/richardson-again-falls-in-polls-biden-climbs\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T22:55:00","slug":"richardson-again-falls-in-polls-biden-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/richardson-again-falls-in-polls-biden-climbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson again falls in polls; Biden climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After a brief surge in Iowa<\/st1:state>, New Hampshire<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> and national polls in recent weeks, Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> support is again headed in the opposite direction; meanwhile, support for Joe Biden<\/a> is increasing. <\/p>\n

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Since Tuesday, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s Real Clear Politics average of recent national polls<\/a> has fallen from 4.1 percent to 3.6 percent. Meanwhile, Biden\u2019s average has risen from 2.8 percent to 3.4 percent.<\/p>\n

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The governor\u2019s average of recent polls in Iowa<\/a> has fallen from 9.8 percent to 7.4 percent since Tuesday, and his average of recent polls in New Hampshire<\/a> has fallen from 10.3 percent to 8 percent. Meanwhile, Biden has climbed in Iowa<\/st1:state> to 5.3 percent and in New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to 3 percent.<\/p>\n

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Both candidates are still far behind the three frontrunners.<\/p>\n

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While most polls have shown Richardson<\/st1:city> at between 8 and 10 percent in the all-important state of Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> in the last two weeks, one poll conducted by American Research Group<\/a> had him last week at 4 percent, and another conducted by Strategic Vision<\/a> had him at 3 percent. Those two polls are almost entirely responsible for Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s drop in Iowa<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n

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In addition, a poll that\u2019s not included in the Real Clear Politics average \u2013 an internal poll conducted for John Edwards\u2019<\/a> campaign \u2013 has Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> at 9 percent among likely Democratic caucus goers and 8 percent among definite Democratic caucus goers.<\/p>\n

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In New Hampshire<\/st1:state>, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s decline has come because all recent polls of likely Democratic primary voters place him below his 10.3 percent average of a week ago. The two most recent polls \u2013 one conducted by Mason-Dixon<\/a> and the other conducted by Zogby<\/a> \u2013 have Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> at 7 and 6 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n

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Another piece of bad news for Richardson<\/st1:city> is the most recent American Research Group<\/a> poll of likely Democratic caucus goers in Nevada<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, which has him at 2 percent. The Richardson<\/st1:city> campaign is only more active in Iowa<\/st1:state> and New Hampshire<\/st1:state> than it is in Nevada<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, the fourth state to hold its presidential nominating contest. The governor has generally been at between 5 and 8 percent in polls in the state.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s decline comes as supporters from New Mexico<\/st1:state> \u2013 including a number of state employees Richardson<\/st1:city> asked for help \u2013 are traveling to Iowa<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to campaign for him. Will it matter? With 24 days until the Iowa Caucus, only time will tell, but there are certainly going to be a number of new polls conducted during that time to help us keep track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a brief surge in Iowa, New Hampshire and national polls in recent weeks, Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s support is again headed in the opposite direction; meanwhile, support for Joe Biden is increasing. Since Tuesday, Richardson\u2019s Real Clear Politics average of recent national polls has fallen from 4.1 percent to 3.6 percent. Meanwhile, Biden\u2019s average has […]<\/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-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","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=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}