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.
A poll by Rasmussen Reports finds that most respondents want their elected officials to be more like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin than Arizona Sen. John McCain.
The poll also shows a striking, though not unexpected, difference between how Republicans and Democrats view the Republican Party. A majority of Democrats believe the Republicans have been too conservative, while a plurality of Republicans believe they have been too moderate. And 55 percent of Republicans believe the party “should become more like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in the future.”
Overall, however, those polled thought the Republican Party had been too conservative, with 42 percent saying they were too conservative, 29 percent saying too moderate and 16 percent saying just right; 13 percent were not sure.
Eric Kleefeld of Talking Points Memo believes he knows why the Republican Party wants to tilt in a rightward fashion:
As I’ve previously noted, poll data like this could indicate that the Republican Party is getting ready to relive the classic cycle of ruling parties who get turned out of power in a landslide: With the party base itself shrunk down, the people who are still around are the most hard-line members, and are really the least fit people to fix the situation.
Also, Palin greatly excited the base, though she did not help the Republican’s ticket with moderates. The most energy I saw at a McCain presidential campaign event in New Mexico came when McCain and Palin appeared at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
