{"id":4046,"date":"2008-12-07T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/most-voters-in-poll-say-balderas-should-be-lt-gov\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T04:05:00","slug":"most-voters-in-poll-say-balderas-should-be-lt-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/most-voters-in-poll-say-balderas-should-be-lt-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Most voters in poll say Balderas should be lt. gov."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The majority of those who voted in last week\u2019s non-scientific poll on this site said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltgovernor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diane Denish<\/a> should pick State Auditor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saonm.org\/about-hector-balderas\" target=\"_blank\">Hector Balderas<\/a> to be the next lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Of 319 voters, 183, or 57 percent, picked Balderas, while 18, or 6 percent, picked state Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/luckyvarela.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luciano \u201cLucky\u201d Varela<\/a> and 14, or 4 percent, picked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrcog-nm.gov\/content\/view\/233\/269\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Rael<\/a>, executive director of the Mid-Region Council of Governments. Some 104, or 33 percent, said Denish should pick someone other than those three. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Don\u2019t forget to vote in this week\u2019s poll, located at the top of the right column on this page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of those who voted in last week\u2019s non-scientific poll on this site said Diane Denish should pick State Auditor Hector Balderas to be the next lieutenant governor. Of 319 voters, 183, or 57 percent, picked Balderas, while 18, or 6 percent, picked state Rep. Luciano \u201cLucky\u201d Varela and 14, or 4 percent, picked [&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-4046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046","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=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}