{"id":4193,"date":"2009-01-30T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/guvs-approval-rating-drops-below-50-percent\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:20:00","slug":"guvs-approval-rating-drops-below-50-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/guvs-approval-rating-drops-below-50-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv&#8217;s approval rating drops below 50 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SYNmw5uzxbI\/AAAAAAAAKwM\/HZj_Jk1JP-U\/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\/SYNmw5uzxbI\/AAAAAAAAKwM\/HZj_Jk1JP-U\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297190577034741170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With recent pay-to-play controversies consuming the headlines, Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> popularity has dipped below 50 percent in a new poll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Some 47 percent of New Mexicans said they approve of the job Richardson is doing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/kob.com\/article\/stories\/s768284.shtml?cat=504\" target=\"_blank\">SurveyUSA poll<\/a> conducted for KOB-TV in Albuquerque. That\u2019s down from 59 percent a month ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The survey of 600 adults was conducted Jan. 20 and 21 and has a margin of error of 3.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The dip really isn\u2019t surprising. Richardson withdrew his nomination to be commerce secretary earlier this month because of <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/grand-jury-probes-richardson-donors.html\">an ongoing federal grand jury investigation<\/a> into allegations of pay to play in his administration. The headlines have been constant since then, and a separate pay-to-play allegation made in <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/guvs-administration-faces-new-pay-to.html\">a civil lawsuit<\/a> was revealed soon thereafter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Richardson\u2019s approval rating has been close to the 50-percent mark at other times in the last year, and I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/dropping-approval-rating-is-sign-of.html\">an analysis in June<\/a> of what it all meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With recent pay-to-play controversies consuming the headlines, Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s popularity has dipped below 50 percent in a new poll. Some 47 percent of New Mexicans said they approve of the job Richardson is doing in the SurveyUSA poll conducted for KOB-TV in Albuquerque. That\u2019s down from 59 percent a month ago. The survey of [&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-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}