{"id":3213,"date":"2008-05-12T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/n-m-a-focus-as-mccain-obama-prepare-for-november\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T20:59:00","slug":"n-m-a-focus-as-mccain-obama-prepare-for-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/n-m-a-focus-as-mccain-obama-prepare-for-november\/","title":{"rendered":"N.M. a focus as McCain, Obama prepare for November"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As presidential candidates John McCain<\/a> and even Barack Obama<\/a> map out their general-election strategies, both are planning to focus a great deal of attention on Hispanics and independents and one state that has a lot of both \u2013 New Mexico. <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s according to a weekend article in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Both campaigns are beginning to assemble teams in key battleground states, according to the article, even as Obama is at least technically still in a Democratic primary battle with Hillary Clinton<\/a>. The article mentions New Mexico<\/st1:state> as one of three Western states, along with Colorado<\/st1:state> and Nevada<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, where both men plan to focus resources as they seek to win over Hispanic voters.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The GOP\u2019s McCain has already run his first television ad<\/a> of the general election season in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. And the Obama campaign, according to the article, thinks Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> endorsement may prove \u201cmore critical in the general election than in the primary.\u201d Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is one of the nation\u2019s most prominent Hispanics.<\/p>\n

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The article listed 14 states both campaigns agree are clearly in play in the general election, and New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> is among them. In addition to New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s large Hispanic population, it has a significant and growing population of people who register to vote without aligning themselves with a political party. McCain and Obama have demonstrated in their respective primaries the ability to draw the support of large numbers of independents.<\/p>\n

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Another interesting point from the article is that both campaigns said they are open to holding joint forums and unmoderated debates across the nation this summer. Could we see a joint appearance in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> sometime in the next few months? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As presidential candidates John McCain and even Barack Obama map out their general-election strategies, both are planning to focus a great deal of attention on Hispanics and independents and one state that has a lot of both \u2013 New Mexico. That\u2019s according to a weekend article in the New York Times. Both campaigns are beginning […]<\/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-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","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=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}