{"id":3933,"date":"2008-11-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/journal-polls-have-dems-leading-in-all-federal-races\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T16:30:00","slug":"journal-polls-have-dems-leading-in-all-federal-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/journal-polls-have-dems-leading-in-all-federal-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal polls have Dems leading in all federal races"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. <\/p>\n

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Though the election isn\u2019t over, and things could change by Tuesday, that\u2019s the trend revealed by Albuquerque Journal polls of all federal races in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>: Democrats have the edge in every race.<\/p>\n

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In the presidential race<\/a>, the Journal poll released today had Barack Obama<\/a> leading John McCain<\/a> by eight points, 51 percent to 43 percent. Some 5 percent remained undecided in the survey, which was conducted Tuesday through Thursday.<\/p>\n

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The big reason for Obama\u2019s lead: He was ahead by a whopping 22 percentage points in Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n

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In the U.S. Senate race<\/a>, the Journal poll had Democrat Tom Udall<\/a> leading Republican Steve Pearce<\/a> by 14 points, 53 percent to 39 percent.<\/p>\n

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In the state\u2019s three U.S. House races<\/a>, the Journal poll had Democrat Martin Heinrich<\/a> leading Republican Darren White<\/a> in the 1st District race by 4 points, 47 percent to 43 percent; Democrat Harry Teague<\/a> leading Republican Ed Tinsley<\/a> in the 2nd District race by 4 points, 45 percent to 41 percent; and Democrat Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n<\/a> leading in a three-way race in the 3rd District race with 51 percent to Republican Dan East\u2019s<\/a> 23 percent and independent Carol Miller\u2019s<\/a> 12 percent.<\/p>\n

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The Journal\u2019s Web site doesn\u2019t include the sample sizes and margins of error for its polls.<\/p>\n

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One other poll to tell you about: A SurveyUSA poll<\/a> released Saturday had Obama leading McCain by 7 points, 52 percent to 45 percent, with 2 percent undecided. The survey of 664 likely and actual voters was conducted Wednesday through Friday and has a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. Though the election isn\u2019t over, and things could change by Tuesday, that\u2019s the trend revealed by Albuquerque Journal polls of all federal races in New Mexico: Democrats have the edge in every race. In the presidential race, the Journal poll released today had Barack Obama leading John McCain by eight points, 51 […]<\/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-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933","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=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}