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.
President Barack Obama holds an approval rating of 53 percent among registered voters in New Mexico, according to a poll conducted by Research and Polling for the Albuquerque Journal.
The president of Research and Polling, Inc., Brian Sanderoff, told the Albuquerque Journal that it was “not bad” that Obama is still over fifty percent, “But he has slipped some, in my opinion, because of the health care debate. It’s taking a toll.”
In this poll, New Mexico is in line with the Pollster.com average (which averages the results of all national polls). Obama has seen a slight rise in approval ratings nationwide in the past few days following his health care address to a joint session of Congress.
According to the Albuquerque Journal poll, Democrats hold a higher view of Obama’s performance than others — 79 percent of Democrats polled approve of the job Obama is doing while 76 percent of Republicans polled disapprove of the job that Obama is doing. Independents approved of Obama by a 43 percent to 36 percent margin.
The Journal poll was conducted by telephone from September 8-10 and was of 402 registered voters statewide. The margin of error on the poll plus or minus 5 percentage points.
