A newspaper's poll has found that nearly half of New Mexico voters support luring employers to the state with financial incentives.
The poll by the Albuquerque Journal shows 49 percent of voters are behind offering as much as $1 billion worth of financial incentives to attract a large company.
Thirty-nine percent say they were against offering public incentives. The remaining voters say they had mixed feelings or were undecided.
The poll was conducted Sept. 9-11, a few days after New Mexico lost out to be the site of a new Tesla plant.
The poll was based on telephone interviews with 500 people who voted in the 2010 and 2012 elections and said they would likely vote again this year. The poll's margin of error was 4.4 percentage points.
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Information from: Albuquerque Journal, http://www.abqjournal.com
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