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.
New Mexico’s U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both Democrats, have high approval ratings in the latest Albuquerque Journal poll. Bingaman has an approval rating of 61 percent and a disapproval rating of 21 percent, while Udall has an approval rating of 59 percent and a disapproval rating of 24 percent.
The same poll puts President Barack Obama at an approval rating of 53 percent.
Research and Polling, Inc. conducted the poll for the Albuquerque Journal. Research and Polling president said Bingaman’s high ratings can be attributed, in part, to the fact that “Nobody has been beating up on him politically lately.”
Udall, Sanderoff said, has slightly lower ratings because of his Senate race last year against Republican Steve Pearce.
The Albuquerque Journal also polled Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who had low approval ratings in New Mexico. Pelosi was “he only person in the survey who had more people disapprove, 45 percent, than approve, 35 percent,” the Albuquerque Journal wrote.
While both Bingaman and Udall had approval ratings in the high-70s among New Mexico Democrats (77 percent for Bingaman, and 78 percent for Udall), only 51 percent of New Mexico Democrats approved of the job that Pelosi was doing.
