{"id":3294,"date":"2008-05-28T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/opinion-is-mixed-on-who-won-gop-senate-debate\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T21:49:00","slug":"opinion-is-mixed-on-who-won-gop-senate-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/opinion-is-mixed-on-who-won-gop-senate-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion is mixed on who won GOP Senate debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Opinion appears to be mixed about who won Tuesday\u2019s Republican U.S. Senate candidate debate between Steve Pearce<\/a> and Heather Wilson<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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A poll on KOAT\u2019s Web site<\/a> asking who won has 105 votes each for Pearce and Wilson. And an Albuquerque Journal<\/a> reporter wrote on the paper\u2019s blog that opinion is mixed in the newsroom about who won.<\/p>\n

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KOAT reaches every county in the state except Do\u00f1a Ana, and I couldn\u2019t get the station\u2019s video feed on its Web site to work on Tuesday evening, so I wasn\u2019t able to watch the debate and have no opinion on who won. You can watch excerpts from the debate by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Wilson and Pearce both claimed victory in news releases.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSteve Pearce stumbled badly when questioned about previous statements he made in support of taking Social Security away from widows, orphans and other beneficiaries,\u201d the release from Wilson\u2019s campaign stated. <\/p>\n

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\u201cSteve Pearce must know that his extreme position on Social Security will keep him from winning in November,\u201d Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201cI believe we need to nominate a commonsense conservative who can win in November, and Steve Pearce is not that candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pearce, a news release from his campaign claimed, \u201cwon a decisive victory\u201d by discussing his \u201cstrong, consistent New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> values.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is no question where Steve Pearce stands on the issues important to New Mexicans,\u201d said campaign manager John Billingsley in a release. \u201cHe is a man of great integrity and is always straightforward when people ask about his position. That really came out tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can read more about the debate from the Albuquerque Journal<\/a> and The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opinion appears to be mixed about who won Tuesday\u2019s Republican U.S. Senate candidate debate between Steve Pearce and Heather Wilson. A poll on KOAT\u2019s Web site asking who won has 105 votes each for Pearce and Wilson. And an Albuquerque Journal reporter wrote on the paper\u2019s blog that opinion is mixed in the newsroom about […]<\/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-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","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=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}