{"id":6891,"date":"2009-09-27T00:43:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T06:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2009-09-27T00:45:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T06:45:22","slug":"berry-leads-chavez-romero-in-abq-journal-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/berry-leads-chavez-romero-in-abq-journal-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Berry leads Ch\u00e1vez, Romero in ABQ Journal poll"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Richard Berry<\/p><\/div>\n

With 12 days before the Oct. 6 election, Richard Berry<\/a> has a slight lead in the Albuquerque mayoral race, according to an Albuquerque Journal poll<\/a> released late Saturday.<\/p>\n

That will come as a surprise to many, but with Democrats\u00a0Martin Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>, the incumbent,\u00a0and Richard Romero<\/a> splitting the Democratic vote, perhaps it’s no surprise that Berry, a Republican, has a lead, even if this is supposedly a non-partisan race.<\/p>\n

Berry had the support of 31 percent of the 406 registered, likely voters polled,\u00a0while 26 percent supported Ch\u00e1vez and 24 percent supported Romero. Some 19 percent were undecided.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0survey was conducted Tuesday through Thursday and has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.<\/p>\n

Brian Sanderoff, president of Research & Polling Inc., which conducted the poll, said the race isn’t over yet, and all three candidates are within striking distance.\u00a0According to the Journal, “If no candidate wins more than 40 percent on Election Day, a runoff would be held Nov. 24 between the top two vote-getters in the Oct. 6 contest.”<\/p>\n

Here’s how Sanderoff explained the results to the Journal:<\/p>\n

“Richard Berry and Richard Romero have focused their criticism on Ch\u00e1vez\u00a0— and this has taken its toll,” he said. “… Berry is consolidating Republican support, taking Republican votes away from Ch\u00e1vez. Romero is splitting Democratic voters with Ch\u00e1vez.”<\/p>\n

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With 12 days before the Oct. 6 election, Richard Berry has a slight lead in the Albuquerque mayoral race, according to an Albuquerque Journal poll released late Saturday. The results: Berry with 31 percent, Ch\u00e1vez with 26 percent and Romero with 24 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-6891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-albuquerque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891","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=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}