{"id":3958,"date":"2008-11-04T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/guv-says-hispanics-deserve-credit-for-obama-win\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T05:02:00","slug":"guv-says-hispanics-deserve-credit-for-obama-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/guv-says-hispanics-deserve-credit-for-obama-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv says Hispanics deserve credit for Obama win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SREpMe1DNrI\/AAAAAAAAJR8\/JEbRKYlk2pg\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SREpMe1DNrI\/AAAAAAAAJR8\/JEbRKYlk2pg\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265034733783561906\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> said tonight that Hispanics deserve some credit for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> big win.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Speaking about the fact that Obama won <st1:state st=\"on\">New  Mexico<\/st1:state>, <st1:state st=\"on\">Colorado<\/st1:state>, <st1:state st=\"on\">Nevada<\/st1:state> and <st1:state st=\"on\">Florida<\/st1:state>, which all have significant Hispanic populations, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a> moments ago that he\u2019s proud as a Hispanic American to be part of electing Obama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019m ecstatic. I\u2019m even humbled by what\u2019s happened,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201c\u2026 I hope my community gets a little credit, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The strategy of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s failed presidential race was based on winning Hispanic-rich states, and while he didn\u2019t see that vision through to victory in his own campaign, he worked hard after he dropped out of the race to convince Hispanics to support Obama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt\u2019s a historic day that a minority has been elected,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201c\u2026 Sen. Obama has a mandate tonight. It\u2019s virtually a landslide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson said tonight that Hispanics deserve some credit for Barack Obama\u2019s big win. Speaking about the fact that Obama won New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Florida, which all have significant Hispanic populations, Richardson told NBC News moments ago that he\u2019s proud as a Hispanic American to be part of electing Obama. \u201cI\u2019m ecstatic. [&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-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","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=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}