According to a press release from the Barack Obama campaign, it has surpassed its voter registration goal for New Mexico.

Thirty days before yesterday’s voter registration deadline, the Barack Obama campaign announced an ambitious new goal: It wanted to register 30,000 new voters in just 30 days.

The campaign was even more successful than it had hoped to be; the Obama campaign announced it had registered 35,000 new voters for this November’s election.

New Mexico’s Campaign for Change State Director Adrian Saenz attributed the large number of new voters registered in the last month to “excitement throughout New Mexico for Barack Obama’s message of change.”

In 2004, 756,304 people voted in New Mexico. George W. Bush defeated John Kerry by just 5,988 votes in that election. In 2000, 598,605 people voted, and Bush lost to Al Gore by just 366 votes.