Posted on 08/18/2014 12:41:36 PM PDT by CedarDave
Gov. Susana Martinez led Attorney General Gary King by 9 percentage points in the first Journal Poll on the New Mexico governor’s race, hitting the coveted 50 percent mark before the fall campaign.
“It’s a comfortable lead, especially when you take into consideration the tremendous financial advantage the governor has,” said Brian Sanderoff, president of Research & Polling Inc., which conducted the poll.
The Republican governor, who is seeking re-election to a second four-year term, led the two-term Democratic attorney general in most regions of the state, including the Albuquerque area, the poll found.
Overall, 50 percent of New Mexico voters surveyed in the Journal Poll said they planned to vote for Martinez and 41 percent said they would vote for King. Nine percent said they were undecided.
The low number of undecided voters with more than two months remaining before the Nov. 4 general election is likely due to the fact that both Martinez and King are familiar public figures, Sanderoff said.
“I think a lot of people have already made up their minds,” he said.
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Weird how the “Hispanic” voters prefer the white boy with the freebies and handouts over the Hispanic woman. Really weird.
The usual groups are looking to spend big against her: Teacher’s unions and state employee unions. She has been battling the former for four years in an attempt to raise student achievement and graduation rates by instituting teacher performance standards, bitterly opposed by the unions. Her pick for Public Education Secretary has been stonewalled in the Democratic legislature for four years, also, with the Senate committee in charge of voting confirmation refusing to take a vote. However, she has supported teacher raises and education ratings have improved from four years ago.
Democratic means "freebies and handouts" no matter the ethnic backup of the candidate. It also shows that Republicans backing amnesty for illegals in hopes they will vote for them are delusional.
Yet they seem to prize that whole "respect" thing. Weird indeed.
Agreed. She's a popular incumbent and she's polling ahead of her opponent by a decent margin. If the name "Martinez" is only getting 36% of "Hispanic voters", that's baffling. Also I'm surprised the numbers aren't closer overall with that poor showing from "Hispanic voters", since N.M. has one of the largest percentage of citizens of Hispanic ancestry and many of them are 3rd and 4th generation Americans -- which differs from Hispanic populations in neighboring states. "Hispanics" are nearly 50% of the population in N.M.
Reminds me of state legislature races here in Illinois where black voters will always vote for a white RAT over a black Republican.
Hispanic voters in Taos and (to a lesser extent) Santa Fe will vote the same way as Anglo voters in those cities: heavily Democrat. I would have hoped that Hispanics in the Albuquerque area and in rural southern and eastern NM would give Martinez a higher vote percentage, though.
Santa Fe and Taos are outright moonbat, and only the rich can afford to live there. My grandparents lived in Santa Fe for a time (and are buried there), though they moved down to Albuquerque in the early ‘70s before property values exploded.
Hispanic turn out in 2010 was awful.
Martinez would have lost the 2010 election if Hispanics had turned out like they did in 2008.
The Census number for Hispanics in New Mexico is misleading.
The Census counts “all persons present.”
That includes Hispanics with just Green Cards, and it also includes illegal Hispanics.
Consequently, only about 58% of New Mexico Hispanics are eligible to vote.
Almost 80% of white people in New Mexico are eligible to vote.
White people in New Mexico are solidly Republican:
Romney: 56%
Obama: 41%
There are still a lot of old Spanish families in Taos and Santa Fe, though, perhaps in the less ritzy parts of town.
Martinez gets about 36% of the Hispanic vote and she is Hispanic. How could anybody think that a non-Hispanic Republican could get a majority of the Hispanic vote? She’s a VP possibility in ‘16.
I'm convinced it's liberal media hype - repeat it enough and it's believed and repeated again.
However, I believe she would not accept the VP role in 2016 if it was offered. Her family is very important to her. She is the primary caregiver to an older developmentally-disabled sister with the mentality of a five-year old. She has taken care of the lady with the help of others, but is never far from her. I think her role, after she serves a second term as governor, will be to offer her opinion on Hispanic issues to the party, help in fundraising and support of candidates who agree with her moderately conservative views.
I was mentioning the margins because I don't believe an anti-amnesty stance would appreciably hurt the Republicans at the polls. Republican's have the voting Hispanic votes they are going to get. From what I've seen the (voting) Hispanics in NM are pretty much from families that have been in the region for many years (centuries sometimes) and are little different than the later coming Anglo families in values. The Hispanic being a little bit more devout and family orientated if anything.
I would like Susana give a major speech at the 2016 convention at the very least.
No exit polls were done in NM in 2010, but according an estimate by leftist pro-shamesty outfit “America’s voice” (so, grain of salt), Martinez lost the Hispanic vote in 2010 by 61%-38%. But she doubtlessly did better than an “Anglo” would have.
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