{"id":3082,"date":"2008-04-10T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/daily-kos-readers-like-obamarichardson-ticket\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T22:42:00","slug":"daily-kos-readers-like-obamarichardson-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/daily-kos-readers-like-obamarichardson-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Kos readers like Obama\/Richardson ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bill Richardson<\/a> has won a series non-scientific polls on the influential, liberal blog Daily Kos<\/a> that surveyed the site\u2019s readers about who should be Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> running mate. <\/p>\n

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The finalists who went head-to-head in the last poll were Richardson and U.S. Sen. Jim Webb<\/a>, D-Va. Richardson won with 3,109 votes, or 56 percent, to Webb\u2019s 2,406 votes, or 44 percent.<\/p>\n

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You can read about it by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe governor is grateful for the strong show of support, but he is focused on helping Senator Obama become the next president of the U.S.<\/st1:country-region> and nothing more,\u201d Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> spokesman Pahl Shipley said.<\/p>\n

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To get to the final poll against Webb, Richardson<\/st1:city> also beat Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer<\/a>, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle<\/a> of South Dakota<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd<\/a> and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius<\/a> in earlier rounds of polling. The polling began with 32 potential Democratic vice-presidential candidates.<\/p>\n

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Talk of an Obama\/Richardson ticket has grown louder since the governor endorsed Obama last month. Before that, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> generally wasn\u2019t well-liked by the readers of Daily Kos. The question is whether the reversal in the thinking of the site\u2019s readers, who are generally active, progressive Democrats, is reflective of the greater mood in the party.<\/p>\n

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Tens of millions of people visit the site each month.<\/p>\n

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More important is whether Obama would consider Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> as his running mate. The only comments I\u2019ve seen from Obama about a potential running mate came when asked if he would consider Hillary Clinton<\/a> for the VP spot, and he\u2019s said it\u2019s too early to think about that because he\u2019s still focused on beating Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> in the presidential primary.<\/p>\n

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Ken Camp, a Democratic activist who has been pushing Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> as a vice-presidential candidate on a blog he started<\/a>, said he\u2019s happy with the poll results.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs one of the most prolific bloggers on Governor Richardson for the past two years, I\u2019m thrilled to see the Daily Kos community embrace Governor Richardson by voting for him for vice president over all of the other worthy candidates,\u201d Camp said. \u201cThat a community where millions of people congregate to debate the issues of the day has lent its vote of confidence to Governor Richardson is significant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis vote should not be taken lightly. Even on the campaign trail as I talked to people in my own state (Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>), and even in other states, those people who were supporting other candidates for president always said that Bill Richardson would be a great vice president if he wasn\u2019t the nominee,\u201d Camp said. \u201cLet\u2019s hope that this vote is the start of that process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The next question on Daily Kos: whether Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> should keep his beard. Currently, 67 percent of those who have voted in the non-scientific poll say he should, while 20 percent say he should not and 14 percent say they don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Richardson has won a series non-scientific polls on the influential, liberal blog Daily Kos that surveyed the site\u2019s readers about who should be Barack Obama\u2019s running mate. The finalists who went head-to-head in the last poll were Richardson and U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. Richardson won with 3,109 votes, or 56 percent, to Webb\u2019s […]<\/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-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","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=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}