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New Mexico is known for many things — green chile, beautiful landscape and Santa Fe.
Now add battleground state. Not that this is so surprising here in the U.S. The Washington Post has said as much this year. But when a British newspaper starts going ga ga over the electoral prospects, you know you’ve arrived internationally.
Check out what the Guardian newspaper in England had to say about New Mexico:
In US political maths, Florida is considered the ultimate battleground. But the home of the 2000 recount has not been the most competitive state during the past two presidential elections. Nor was Ohio, despite its controversial role in George Bush’s 2004 re-election.
The biggest new battleground in America is an unlikely one: New Mexico. Mostly rural and famously quirky, with a total population just shy of the city of Las Vegas’, the state chose Al Gore in 2000 by a mere 300 votes. Bush won New Mexico in 2004 by only 6,000 votes.
With the Democratic primaries coming to a close last week, both Barack Obama and John McCain laid claim to the state’s five electoral votes in duelling speeches on the Memorial Day holiday.
No sooner had the presidential hopefuls departed than Bush swung through New Mexico to raise more than $300,000 in two hours for the congressional campaign of Darren White, a popular county sheriff.<
For political junkies, how cool is that?
