{"id":618249,"date":"2018-08-25T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=618249"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T21:48:49","slug":"more-polls-in-the-u-s-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/08\/more-polls-in-the-u-s-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"More polls in the U.S. Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_72046\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-72046\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CapitolBuilding-771x455.jpg\" alt=\"The U.S. Capitol Building\" width=\"771\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CapitolBuilding-771x455.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CapitolBuilding-336x198.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CapitolBuilding-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CapitolBuilding-1170x690.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/CapitolBuilding.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Capitol Building<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The flood of U.S. Senate polls since Gary Johnson entered the race continued this week.<\/p>\n<p>Two new partisan polls show different visions of the U.S. Senate race, but both show the incumbent leading while the insurgent Libertarian candidate trails in third place.<\/p>\n<p>One newly-released poll by Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Research for The Majority Institute, an organization that seeks to elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate, showed Martin Heinrich, a Democrat, with the support of 48 percent of likely voters, compared to 33 percent for Republican Mick Rich and 17 percent for Libertarian Johnson, a former New Mexico governor.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module align-left half type-aside\">\n<h3>About this article<\/h3>\n<p>This article comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmpoliticalreport.com\/871995\/more-polls-in-the-u-s-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Mexico Political Report<\/a>,\u00a0a nonprofit news organization\u00a0focused on promoting a greater public understanding of politics and policy in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The poll was conducted in early August, before Johnson formally entered the race.<\/p>\n<p>Another poll released before Johnson formally entered the race showed the same order.<\/p>\n<p>That poll, conducted for the Rich campaign, showed a closer race between Heinrich and Rich, with Heinrich leading 41 percent to 34 percent, while Johnson trailed at 19 percent.<\/p>\n<p>That poll was conducted by The Tarrance Group, a Republican pollster, for the Rich campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A previously-released poll conducted by Emerson College showed Johnson in second place. That poll was conducted last week and is the most recent independent poll in the race.<\/p>\n<p>There are differences beyond the time in the field. The GQRR poll asked likely voters for their preference, while the Emerson poll only questioned registered voters.<\/p>\n<p>Both the GQRR and Tarrance Group polls used live-interviews, which allows the pollster to call cell phones, while the Emerson poll used IVR technology to call landlines and used online polls to contact cell-phone only voters.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And while the Emerson poll was not conducted by any group with interest in the race, the GQRR poll was conducted for a progressive group that backs Democratic candidates. These polls are not necessarily less accurate, but the groups will not release the polls unless they show favorable news for the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>GQRR interviewed 500 likely general election voters in New Mexico between Aug. 2 and 5. The survey\u2019s margin of error is +\/-4.4 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>The Tarrance Group poll questioned 500 likely voters between July 31 and Aug. 2 and has a +\/- 4.5 percent margin of error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new partisan polls show different visions of the U.S. Senate race, but both show the incumbent leading while the insurgent Libertarian candidate trails in third place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2238,297,3332,3651,267,116],"class_list":["post-618249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2018-election","tag-gary-johnson","tag-martin-heinrich","tag-mick-rich","tag-u-s-senate","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618249","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=618249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}