{"id":4414,"date":"2009-03-30T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/guvs-approval-stays-below-50-percent\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T06:48:00","slug":"guvs-approval-stays-below-50-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/guvs-approval-stays-below-50-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv&#8217;s approval stays below 50 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SdBr2UqY59I\/AAAAAAAALSw\/3ud3zUv80EI\/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\/SdBr2UqY59I\/AAAAAAAALSw\/3ud3zUv80EI\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318869740928165842\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The newest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kob.com\/article\/stories\/s853991.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">SurveyUSA poll<\/a> has Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> approval rating at 42 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The survey of 600 New Mexicans, released Saturday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That matches a New Mexico State University poll released earlier this month that had Richardson\u2019s approval rating at <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/another-poll-finds-guvs-approval-below.html\">43 percent<\/a> and the February SurveyUSA poll that had his approval at <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/guvs-approval-rating-sinks-further.html\">41 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the new poll, 54 percent said they disapprove of the job Richardson is doing, and 4 percent said they don\u2019t know whether they approve of his performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Richardson\u2019s approval dropped below 50 percent for the first time in January as became dogged by a controversy involving the ongoing federal grand jury investigation into allegations of pay to play in his administration. The struggling economy is also a drag on many politicians\u2019 approval ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest SurveyUSA poll has Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s approval rating at 42 percent. The survey of 600 New Mexicans, released Saturday, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points. That matches a New Mexico State University poll released earlier this month that had Richardson\u2019s approval rating at 43 percent and the [&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-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","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=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}