{"id":34465,"date":"2011-12-15T07:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T14:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=34465"},"modified":"2011-12-20T04:49:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:49:40","slug":"gingrich-has-a-big-lead-in-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/12\/gingrich-has-a-big-lead-in-nm\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich has a big lead in NM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34466\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34466\" title=\"Gingrich, Newt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Gingrich-Newt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Gingrich-Newt.jpg 270w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Gingrich-Newt-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Gingrich-Newt-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Gingrich-Newt-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newt Gingrich<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich<\/a> has a big lead in New Mexico in the Republican presidential primary, a new poll indicates.<\/p>\n<p>The survey from the left-leaning group Public Policy Polling found Gingrich leading with the support of 39 percent of Republican primary voters to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney\u2019s<\/a> 14 percent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyjohnson2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Johnson\u2019s<\/a> 11 percent, 8 percent each for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Paul<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickperry.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Perry<\/a>, 6 percent for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelebachmann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Bachmann<\/a>, 3 percent for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricksantorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Santorum<\/a>, and 2 percent for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jon2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Huntsman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of 300 GOP primary voters was conducted between Saturday and Monday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about the poll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/main\/2011\/12\/gingrich-up-big-in-new-mexico.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and view the full results <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicypolling.com\/pdf\/2011\/PPP_Release_NM_1213925.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on the survey, from Public Policy Polling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhether they\u2019re sustainable or not Gingrich\u2019s numbers in New Mexico are impressive. He has a 65\/25 favorability rating and his support is up more than six fold from when we polled the state in late June and found him at just 6%. He is particularly dominant with the Tea Party vote, getting 55% with that group while no one else is even in double digits. But he\u2019s doing very well with non-Tea Party Republicans as well, holding a 30-19 advantage over Romney with that group.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAnd yet this poll provides hope for Romney should Gingrich eventually \u2013 some might argue inevitably \u2013 collapse.\u00a0He\u2019s the second choice of 23% of Gingrich voters compared to 16% for Perry and 11% for Bachmann with no one else in double digits. This is what we\u2019re finding on poll after poll \u2013 Romney is in a clear second place and he\u2019s also the second choice of Gingrich voters, so should Newt fall apart, Mitt goes back to being the front runner \u2013 and at the one time where it really matters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New Mexico\u2019s GOP presidential contest isn\u2019t historically held until June, and there\u2019s a good chance the primary race will be over long before that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newt Gingrich has a big lead in New Mexico in the Republican presidential primary, a new poll indicates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,240,226],"class_list":["post-34465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-polling","tag-presidential-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34465","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=34465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}