{"id":41320,"date":"2012-07-08T20:59:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T02:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=41320"},"modified":"2012-07-09T06:42:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T12:42:54","slug":"johnson-may-make-n-m-more-difficult-for-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/07\/johnson-may-make-n-m-more-difficult-for-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson may make N.M. more difficult for Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32088\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32088\" title=\"Johnson, Gary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Johnson-Gary.jpg\" alt=\"Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson\" width=\"270\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Libertarian presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyjohnson2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Johnson<\/a> \u201ctakes New Mexico off the table for Mitt Romney,\u201d one Democratic strategist is asserting.<\/p>\n<p>The quote from Jill Hanauer, president of the Democratic firm Project New America, appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0612\/77754.html\" target=\"_blank\">a weekend profile<\/a> of Johnson by Politico.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s lots more in the profile, and it\u2019s not all about how he might hurt Romney. From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPoll after poll shows lackluster enthusiasm for Obama and Romney, along with continuing voter disgust with Washington and most national institutions. That probably isn\u2019t enough to push even a single electoral vote into Johnson\u2019s camp. It could, however, put just enough ballots in Johnson\u2019s column \u2014 in a kind of disaffected, \u2018throw-the-bums-out\u2019 way \u2014 to affect the outcome in a handful of states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly polling has shown Johnson taking more from Romney, although pollsters say he\u2019s peeling off votes from Obama as well. Johnson has said he expects to be on the ballot in all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s an opportunity for Johnson to make a difference anywhere, it\u2019s likely in Mountain states such as his native New Mexico, and Colorado and Nevada, where he could shave votes from the major-party candidates. In a close race that neither side thinks will be an electoral landslide, Johnson could make a real difference \u2014 especially with Ron Paul\u2019s\u00a0libertarian-leaning backers now up for grabs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0612\/77754.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson \u201ctakes New Mexico off the table for Mitt Romney,\u201d one Democratic strategist is asserting in a new article by Politico.<\/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":[156,297,226,107,116],"class_list":["post-41320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-gary-johnson","tag-presidential-race","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41320","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=41320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}