I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Is this the beginning of the end of the long-winded Democratic presidential nominating process?
Looks that way from the press stories coming out today. But you be the judge.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Terry McAuliffe, Clinton’s campaign chairman, saying if the former First Lady isn’t the nominee by June, he’d campaign for Barack Obama.
Clinton narrowly won Indiana on Tuesday, but lost big to Obama in North Carolina, meaning she didn’t gain any ground in the delegate count. And that has put more pressure on Clinton to concede.
Reuters also has an analysis that says Clinton’s adoption of the federal gas-tax holiday first promoted by presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, helped Obama. How? It diverted attention away from Obama’s troubles, specifically the Jeremiah Wright affair. The implication is that Obama was the clear winner Tuesday.
Some commentators opined Tuesday night that more and more Democratic uncommitted super delegates would start lining up behind Obama.
This is not an endorsement, but the AP quoted one of New Mexico’s two remaining uncommitted Democratic super delegates, Laurie Weahkee, saying Clinton’s candidacy didn’t look viable.
Wonder what the mood is wherever Gov. Bill Richardson is. Or what he thinks of it.
Richardson, one could argue, linked his future to Obama when he endorsed him earlier this year. A call to the governor’s office to pose the question was not immediately returned.
