{"id":3953,"date":"2008-11-04T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/rawson-leads-other-dona-ana-county-races-are-close\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T03:58:00","slug":"rawson-leads-other-dona-ana-county-races-are-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/rawson-leads-other-dona-ana-county-races-are-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawson leads; other Do\u00f1a Ana County races are close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SREaDmC7RjI\/AAAAAAAAJRc\/2NLirqmuPoU\/s1600-h\/Rawson,+Lee.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 121px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SREaDmC7RjI\/AAAAAAAAJRc\/2NLirqmuPoU\/s200\/Rawson,+Lee.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265018088427570738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>, the only race that was expected to be close that, at least thus far, isn\u2019t is the state Senate contest between Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senatorrawson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leonard Lee Rawson<\/a> and Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevefornmsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Fischmann<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With 46 percent of precincts reporting in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>, the presidential, U.S. Senate, 2nd Congressional District, clerk and treasurer races are all within 3 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019m guessing, based on a look at the numbers, that the votes that have been counted come from more Republican-leaning than Democratic-leaning precincts. I expect all of these races to swing to Democrats are more votes are counted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While we don\u2019t know exactly which precincts have been counted, the news appears to look good for Rawson, who is leading 58 percent to 42 percent at this point. Rawson\u2019s district also runs into conservative <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Sierra<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>, where he should win. Fischmann needs to win <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Do\u00f1a Ana County, the only race that was expected to be close that, at least thus far, isn\u2019t is the state Senate contest between Republican Leonard Lee Rawson and Democrat Steve Fischmann. With 46 percent of precincts reporting in Do\u00f1a Ana County, the presidential, U.S. Senate, 2nd Congressional District, clerk and treasurer races are [&hellip;]<\/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-3953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953","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=3953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}