{"id":4637,"date":"2009-06-09T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/what-do-you-think-about-a-teaguepearce-matchup\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T15:59:00","slug":"what-do-you-think-about-a-teaguepearce-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/what-do-you-think-about-a-teaguepearce-matchup\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you think about a Teague\/Pearce matchup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Si6HBihVbQI\/AAAAAAAALvE\/rSF5T9_c0fg\/s1600-h\/Teague,+Harry.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\/Si6HBihVbQI\/AAAAAAAALvE\/rSF5T9_c0fg\/s200\/Teague,+Harry.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345358268251598082\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We\u2019ve known for months that Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/pearce-says-hell-be-on-ballot-in-2010.html\">Steve Pearce<\/a> is looking at running for governor or his old congressional seat next year. The Washington publication CQ Politics takes a look, in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cqpolitics.com\/eyeon2010\/2009\/06\/new-mexico-gop-waits-to-hear-i.html\" target=\"_blank\">a new article<\/a>, at whether, now that Pearce is no longer the incumbent, he could topple U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/teague.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Teague<\/a>, D-N.M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Read the article and you\u2019ll find out what I think about the possibilities. The bottom line is that I don\u2019t see Pearce running for governor after <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/conservative-to-end.html\">his last shellacking<\/a> in a statewide race. So a Teague-Pearce matchup is a real possibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Si6HB1mws_I\/AAAAAAAALvM\/7ooe-TzB4u0\/s1600-h\/Pearce,+Steve.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\/Si6HB1mws_I\/AAAAAAAALvM\/7ooe-TzB4u0\/s200\/Pearce,+Steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345358273374630898\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Which raises a number of questions: Can a former incumbent beat a current incumbent? Can a moderate Democrat hold a Republican-leaning seat against a conservative Republican? What does Teague need to do to hold the seat? What does Pearce need to do to take it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Open forum. Tell us what you think in the comments section at the end of this posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve known for months that Republican Steve Pearce is looking at running for governor or his old congressional seat next year. The Washington publication CQ Politics takes a look, in a new article, at whether, now that Pearce is no longer the incumbent, he could topple U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M. Read the article and [&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-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","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=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}