{"id":41437,"date":"2012-07-12T08:38:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=41437"},"modified":"2012-07-12T08:40:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:40:47","slug":"two-recent-polls-have-heinrich-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/07\/two-recent-polls-have-heinrich-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Two recent polls have Heinrich ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35944\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35944\" title=\"Heinrich and Wilson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Heinrich-and-Wilson.jpg\" alt=\"Heather Wilson, left, and Martin Heinrich\" width=\"270\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Wilson, left, and Martin Heinrich<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two recent polls give Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a> a lead over Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherwilson.com\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> in the race to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a> in the U.S. Senate, the New Mexico Telegram <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmtelegram.com\/2012\/07\/11\/two-new-polls-give-heinrich-a-lead-in-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">is reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the Telegram:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA poll conducted by an outfit called We Ask America shows Heinrich has a 51 percent to 42 percent lead over Heather Wilson. This is the first poll to show that Heinrich\u2019s lead is outside the margin of error. We Ask America is a subsidiary of the Illinois Manufacturer\u2019s Association. Nate Silver of the New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/04\/late-polls-find-walker-is-still-favored\/\" target=\"_blank\">says the pollster<\/a>\u00a0\u2018often shows Republican-leaning results.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis poll also showed Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 51 percent to 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA poll conducted on behalf of environmental groups which support Martin Heinrich shows Heinrich leading Heather Wilson 49 percent to 45 percent. The poll, by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fm3research.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates<\/a>, also shows that Wilson\u2019s favorability ratings have dropped in recent weeks, as campaign ads have begun airing on both sides.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmtelegram.com\/2012\/07\/11\/two-new-polls-give-heinrich-a-lead-in-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent polls give Democrat Martin Heinrich a lead over Republican Heather Wilson in the race to replace Jeff Bingaman in the U.S. Senate, the New Mexico Telegram is reporting.<\/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":[156,227,116],"class_list":["post-41437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-u-s-senate-race","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41437","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=41437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}