{"id":1266,"date":"2004-07-29T11:28:35","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T18:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/in-nm-kerry-52-bush-422\/"},"modified":"2004-07-29T11:28:35","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T18:28:35","slug":"in-nm-kerry-52-bush-422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/in-nm-kerry-52-bush-422\/","title":{"rendered":"In NM: Kerry&#8211;52% Bush&#8211;42.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan\" href=\"http:\/\/joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com\/\">New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;August may be a do or die month for the President,&#8221; opined one top Republican<\/b> who has worked at all levels of politics. &#8220;The real trouble for Bush is not just in the horse race, but in how voters here feel about the direction of the country. <b>Only 39% believe the country is on the &#8216;right track&#8217; compared to 57% who feel it&#8217;s on the &#8216;wrong track.&#8221;<\/b> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The grim numbers for Team Bush are as follows: <b>Kerry&#8211;52% Bush&#8211;42.2% Nader&#8211;0.9%<\/b>. That&#8217;s a 9.8% lead for Kerry, the largest of the five Zogby polls conducted thus far and the second one that has put him over the magic 50% level. The margin of error in the poll, done July 19-23, is plus or minus 4.4%. 499 New Mexicans participated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan &#8220;August may be a do or die month for the President,&#8221; opined one top Republican who has worked at all levels of politics. &#8220;The real trouble for Bush is not just in the horse race, but in how voters here feel about the direction of the country. Only 39% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/in-nm-kerry-52-bush-422\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In NM: Kerry&#8211;52% Bush&#8211;42.2%<\/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-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","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=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}