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Poll finds Johnson, Romney best GOP candidates in NM
A new poll finds that Republicans Gary Johnson and Mitt Romney are the candidates with the greatest support in New Mexico in potential matchups with President Barack Obama next year.
And overall, the poll from the left-leaning Public Policy Polling finds Republicans narrowing the gap in the state against the Democrat. Obama’s leads against Republicans are significantly smaller than they were when Public Policy Polling last polled New Mexico in February.
In the new poll, Johnson trailed Obama by three percentage points, 46 percent to 43 percent. Romney trailed 49 percent to 42 percent. Tim Pawlenty trailed 51 percent to 36 percent. Michele Bachmann trailed 52 percent to 37 percent. Herman Cain trailed 52 percent to 36 percent. Sarah Palin trailed 56 percent to 36 percent.
The new poll of 732 New Mexico voters was conducted from June 23 to 26 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.
From the poll memo:
“While independents gave the President leads of 25-51 points in the previous survey, and voted for him by 15 over McCain (according to exit polls), he now leads by only 16-26 against the more prominent candidates and trails Johnson by nine with unaffiliated voters. The president has also slipped a little with his own party, which makes up more than half of voters. While he was pulling 73-86% of Democrats in February and losing only 12-19% of them to the Republicans, he now locks up only 70-80% of his partisans and erodes 13-21%. But there is more crossover support on both sides; both Obama and McCain won 91% of their respective parties, and the president has bumped up from a 10% to a 16% approval rating with Republicans since February, and jumped from 7-12% of their vote to 10-18%.”
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Gary Johnson should run for senate. He would have a very good chance in winning. I would like another senator with his philosophy in the senate.
qofdiscs, I try to only be rude to individuals when they have been rude to others. I follow the brass rule, I suppose.
VGJ’s comment is borderline insulting to people who are not from New Mexico and (probably unintentionally) insulting to those of us who are.
I’ve financially supported some candidates who were outside of my state. But when I supported, say, Howard Dean, I didn’t go to Vermont political forums to tell them how great Howard Dean was. If I did, I would try to start with questions (“Did you folks like Governor Dean?” “What was Governor Dean like?” “What’s one thing you didn’t like about Governor Dean?) rather than immediately hail him as a very successful governor, a judgment I would have no direct evidence to be able to make.
IcarusPhoenix, stever, artiofab, you guys are rude. I think that is is a good idea for New Mexicans to look into Gary Johnson’s policy stance on the issues now that he is running for President. He is more sane that the rest of the GOP field out there now which mean he will not likely get past the radicals that the republican party has become. He is less paid off by Wall Street than Obama for the moment.
VoteGaryJohnson, you really, really need to learn the proper usage of democrat and democratic. I am not the only democrat in NM that is seriously considering VOTING for Gary Johnson. You grind democratic nerves with your improper grammar promoted by the radical and disrespectful far right propaganda. You are not doing Gary any favors by doing so.
VoteGaryJohnson:
Actually, your post was so transparently a cut-and-paste job that I just did as you suggested and Google-searched the first paragraph word-for-word. Also, what is “liberty freedom”? Freedom from liberty? Liberation from freedom? Couldn’t former-Governor Johnson find someone more coherent to spread his half-formed message?
Indeed????
Something like that…
stever says: “IP, I agree with you. Heath’s not inclined to censor”. Indeed????
What happens in New Mexico, doesn’t always stay in New Mexico.
Former Governor Gary Johnson blows doors on the rest of the Republican Presidential candidates.
I have met him a couple of times; he and his policies are commendable, sane, and worth the look.
What a laugh! Little NM says Johnson is the right person for the POTUS, yet most Americans never heard of Johnson. Good luck with that!
Well if you seen some of my other posts then I guess the few mins a day that I spend trying to help spread the word of liberty freedom is working!
Wait. We have a guy from Missouri telling us to vote for Gary Johnson? And is lecturing us about our former governor? How rich.
I guess the good news is that Johnson is polling better in his state than Palin is in hers?
IP, I agree with you.
Heath’s not inclined to censor, but even for those of us who admit to some intellectual challenges, that demonstrates a fairly low regard for the reader.
If you’re going to run around the internet posting the exact same accuracy-averse vitriolic statement on every political news site you can find, you should perhaps pay at least some attention to your audience. “If you have not heard of Governor Gary Johnson, Google him!”? Setting aside the risk inherent in merely using Google as your source (since plenty of decidedly negative results would come up as well, of course), did you not realize where this site’s core audience live?
Gary Johnson is a breath of fresh air compared to the other republican candidates. He is honest and smart! Its so nice not to be pandered to by slick talking sound bite politicians. Gary Johnson speaks slowly and eloquently, which does not lend itself to debates.
I believe Governor Gary Johnson is Obamas biggest threat. Its really hard for Obummers re-election team to paint a pro-choice, pro-gay rights, anti war GOP candidate who wants to legalize marijuana as a right wing extremist. His socially liberal stances will be attractive to democrat and independent voters. Not to mention he was a very successful two term(that’s one more term than mitt romney) republican Governor in new mexico a state that is 2 to 1 democrat. He left office with a billion dollar surplus and was arguably the most fiscally conservative governor ever. He is a true Statesman and practices good stewardship of your tax dollars.
He also will not engage in mud slinging or name calling. He ran two campaigns in NM where he never mentioned his opponent. He will stick to the issues and not try to blame obama. I met Gary Johnson twice last year in my state of MO.. Once when he spoke at UMKC and another event he spoke at Missouri Southern State University. in Joplin Mo. He took the time to answer all my questions and sincerely listened to my concerns.. He is obviously working harder than the other candidates! For this he has earned my vote and support! If you have not heard of Governor Gary Johnson, Google him!