{"id":1245,"date":"2004-06-25T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2004-06-26T00:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bush-in-nm-a-battleground-state\/"},"modified":"2004-06-25T17:00:48","modified_gmt":"2004-06-26T00:00:48","slug":"bush-in-nm-a-battleground-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-in-nm-a-battleground-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush in NM (a battleground state)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan\" href=\"http:\/\/joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com\/2004_06_01_joemonahansnewmexico_archive.html#108796541731319968\">New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in three surveys, soon-to-be Dem Prez nominee John Kerry cracks the magic 50% mark in the interactive New Mexico Zogby poll. My insiders are tracking the numbers and report in that <b>Kerry gets 50%, Bush garners 43% and Ralph Nader just 1% in the poll conducted June 14-20<\/b> and that sports a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The bad news in this poll is how Bush is running with Democrats. He gets only 12%. He must bring that number up, or he is going to lose this state,&#8221; predicted one analyst who is studying the numbers. <\/p>\n<p>Bush does get a solid 93% among NM Republican voters but this is a Democratic state and there simply are not enough R&#8217;s here for him to carry the day. &#8221;Bush needs to get a quarter or more of the Democrats if he is gong to win in November. <b>Another concern for him is <i>his weakening support<\/i> in this poll in smaller cities and rural areas. That&#8217;s the first time we have seen that<\/b>,&#8221; commented my deep insider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan For the first time in three surveys, soon-to-be Dem Prez nominee John Kerry cracks the magic 50% mark in the interactive New Mexico Zogby poll. My insiders are tracking the numbers and report in that Kerry gets 50%, Bush garners 43% and Ralph Nader just 1% in the poll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-in-nm-a-battleground-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush in NM (a battleground state)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}