{"id":795,"date":"2006-11-01T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/madrid-holds-lead-after-debate-and-democrats-chances-of-taking-the-house-look-good\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T17:23:00","slug":"madrid-holds-lead-after-debate-and-democrats-chances-of-taking-the-house-look-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/madrid-holds-lead-after-debate-and-democrats-chances-of-taking-the-house-look-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid holds lead after debate, and Democrats’ chances of taking the House look good"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A new poll confirms that U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., is still trailing Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid. <\/p>\n

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The newest Reuters\/Zogby poll<\/a>, released today, has Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> ahead 53 to 44 percent. The poll, a live survey of at least 500 likely voters, was conducted Oct. 24-29, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n

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The last Albuquerque Journal poll<\/a>, conducted by pollster Brian Sanderoff\u2019s group between Oct. 17 and 19, had Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> ahead 45-42 percent, with nine percent undecided. That poll surveyed 503 registered voters and had a margin of error of 4.4 percent.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The last Reuters\/Zogby poll<\/a>, conducted between Sept. 25 and Oct. 2, had Madrid<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> ahead 50-40 percent.<\/p>\n

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The Journal polls are considered by most experts in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to be slightly more accurate than others. But the new Reuters\/Zogby poll is the first to include any questioning of likely voters since the Oct. 24 televised debate<\/a> between the two candidates.<\/p>\n

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The last Journal poll on the race will be released this weekend.<\/p>\n

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Wilson<\/st1:city> and Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> continue to fight hard, and their parties\u2019 big guns are helping out. Former President Bill Clinton will be in Albuquerque<\/st1:city> Thursday to rally voters for Madrid<\/st1:state>, and first lady Laura Bush will be in Albuquerque<\/st1:city> Friday to rally voters for Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n

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The newest poll was part of a larger Reuters\/Zogby survey that showed Democrats ahead in 12 of 15 key Republican-held seats in the U.S. House. The last Reuters\/Zogby poll had Democrats ahead in 11 of those 15 races.<\/p>\n

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Since then, according to Reuters<\/a>, Democrats improved their standing in nine of those districts, while Republicans gained ground in six.<\/p>\n

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Unless there\u2019s a looming November surprise, Republicans should be worried. Democrats need 15 seats to take control of the House.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDemocrats are getting very close to that magic number of 15,\u201d pollster John Zogby told Reuters. \u201cRepublicans are really on the ropes.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new poll confirms that U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., is still trailing Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid. The newest Reuters\/Zogby poll, released today, has Madrid ahead 53 to 44 percent. The poll, a live survey of at least 500 likely voters, was conducted Oct. 24-29, and has a margin of error of plus or minus […]<\/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-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}