{"id":37264,"date":"2012-02-27T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=37264"},"modified":"2012-02-27T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T18:22:46","slug":"wilsons-poll-has-her-leading-sowards-by-71-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/02\/wilsons-poll-has-her-leading-sowards-by-71-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson\u2019s poll has her leading Sowards by 71 points"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36282\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36282\" title=\"Wilson, Sowards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Wilson-Sowards.jpg\" alt=\"Heather Wilson and Greg Sowards\" width=\"270\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Wilson, left, and Greg Sowards<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first poll of the GOP U.S. Senate primary to be released since John Sanchez <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/02\/its-official-sanchez-quits-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">dropped out<\/a> of the race has <a href=\"http:\/\/heatherwilson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> leading <a href=\"http:\/\/gregsowards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Sowards<\/a> by 71 points.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, an internal poll conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/pos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Public Opinion Strategies<\/a> for the Wilson campaign, has her leading Sowards 81 percent to 10 percent. The survey of 500 likely Republican primary voters was conducted Feb. 13-15 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.38 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>Read the poll memo <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Documents\/02.27.12.SenateGOPPoll.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wilson leads in intensity. Some 50 percent said they will \u201cdefinitely\u201d vote for Wilson, while 3 percent said the same about Sowards.<\/li>\n<li>Sowards\u2019 name ID is only 30 percent. Some 8 percent said they have a favorable view of him, while 3 percent had an unfavorable view.<\/li>\n<li>Wilson leads 66 percent to 21 percent in Sowards\u2019 \u201cgeographic base of the Southwest\u201d part of the state, the memo states. Sowards is from Las Cruces.<\/li>\n<li>Wilson leads 78 percent to 16 percent among voters who have heard of both candidates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cHeather Wilson has a strong, united base backing her candidacy to become the Republican nominee for Senate,\u201d the poll memo states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first poll of the GOP U.S. Senate primary to be released since John Sanchez dropped out of the race has Heather Wilson leading Greg Sowards by 71 points.<\/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":[156,240,227,116],"class_list":["post-37264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-polling","tag-u-s-senate-race","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37264","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=37264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}