{"id":890,"date":"2006-11-17T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/congressional-race-results-expected-today\/"},"modified":"2006-11-17T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T15:07:00","slug":"congressional-race-results-expected-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/congressional-race-results-expected-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional race results expected today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The final results in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Congressional District race between Republican incumbent Heather Wilson and Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid are expected later today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Officially, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has a 1,182-vote lead with about 1,500 ballots left to count. Unofficially, the Republican Party claims its tally of what\u2019s left has <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> ahead by more votes than there are outstanding ballots, making her lead insurmountable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/513324nm11-17-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a>, Republicans claim their count has <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> up by 896 votes with no more than 500 ballots remaining to be tallied. Bernalillo County Elections Administrator Jaime Diaz told the Journal that an estimated 200 of those have been disqualified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:city> has already claimed victory, but <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> has yet to concede. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final results in the 1st Congressional District race between Republican incumbent Heather Wilson and Democratic challenger Patricia Madrid are expected later today. Officially, Wilson has a 1,182-vote lead with about 1,500 ballots left to count. Unofficially, the Republican Party claims its tally of what\u2019s left has Wilson ahead by more votes than there are [&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-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}