Obama up by 13 in new New Mexico Poll

[WI_DEM]

Never heard of the Pollster, but the result is good:

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO – President Obama has a significant lead over Mitt Romney among New Mexico voters, according to a new poll conducted for Patriot Majority USA (www.PatriotMajority.org) in conjunction with Project New America (www.ProjectNewAmerica.com). Interestingly, former New Mexico Governor and Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson receives 21% of New Mexico’s Independent vote, only slightly less than Romney’s 28%.

According to the Patriot Majority poll of 502 voters conducted May 16-21, 2012 by Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3), the President leads Romney by 48% to 35%. Twelve percent of New Mexico voters support the candidacy of Libertarian Gary Johnson, the state’s former governor. Five percent are undecided. The poll’s margin of error is 4.4.%.
 Obama 48%
 Romney 35%
 Johnson 12%
 Und./Other 5%

The poll's findings offer insight into the hotly contested Hispanic vote -- critical to success in such states as NM, NV, CO and AZ. President Obama currently leads with 62% support among Hispanic voters, contrasted with only 24% for Romney and 9% for Johnson. These numbers indicate a major structural difficulty for Romney in competing for votes in this critical and emerging bloc of American voters."

http://www.patriotmajority.org/system/storage/4/316/NM_POLL_--_MEMO_--_5-31-2012.pdf

[Warpy]

1. Johnson's making a good percentage here

because he's a Republican governor who didn't screw things up. Besides, he's enough of an oddball to be greatly appreciated out here, NM loves its oddballs. That's why I live here.

Were he not doing as well, the race with Romney would be far closer.