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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.
According to polling conducted by SurveyUSA for KOB-TV, New Mexicans have positive job approval ratings for Senators Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Tom Udall, D-N.M.
Bingaman, a five-term senator from Silver City, has an approval rating of 58 percent according to the poll, while Udall, a freshman from Santa Fe, has an approval rating of 54 percent.
The poll, conducted on September 28 and 29, is in line with much of Bingaman’s approval ratings over the last four years. For Udall, it is the third time in four months that his approval rating was at 54 percent.
Bingaman, somewhat surprisingly, has a positive-net approval rating among Republicans, 47 percent to 44 percent. This is within the wide +/- 7.5 percent margin of error for the subgroup. Among Democrats, he has a 75 percent approval rating and only independents, at 40 percent approval versus 47 percent disapproval, give the senior Senator from New Mexico a net-negative approval rating. Again, all three subgroups have very high margins of error.
Udall has an approval rating of 71 percent among Democrats against 23 percent disapproval, 42 percent among Republicans against 51 percent disapproval and 44 percent approval among independents against 42 percent disapproval.
Both are popular both in Bernalillo County—Bingaman has a 54 percent approval rating, while Udall has a 56 percent approval rating—and outside of the state’s most populous county, where Bingaman has a 60 percent approval rating while Udall has a 64 percent approval rating.
The poll, of 600 adults in New Mexico, has a margin of error of +/- 4 percent and was conducted for KOB-TV.
