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.
According to the Pew Research Group, the number of people who would like to see their own U.S Representative re-elected has reached a low point — the same type of low point seen in the 1994 and 2006 midterms when the parties in power suffered large losses.
“About half (52 percent) of registered voters would like to see their own representative re-elected next year, while 34 percent say that most members of Congress should be re-elected,” according to Pew. “Both measures are among the most negative in two decades of Pew Research surveys.”
And, in more bad news for Democrats, Republicans are currently much more enthusiastic about voting in 2010.
There is no jump in support for a third party (a party besides the Democratic or Republican Party), however. In fact, it has fallen to 52 percent from 56 percent in June of 2008. This is far off Pew’s all-time high of 59 percent in October of 1995.
As for President Barack Obama, his approval rating hasn’t seen much change since June. Pew says Obama’s “overall job approval ratings have held relatively steady over the past four months: currently, 51 percent of Americans say they approve of his job performance; this figure has fluctuated between 51 percent and 55 percent since July. The share who disapprove – currently 36 percent – has ranged between 33 percent and 37 percent over the same time period.”
However, the president’s approval rating on how he has handled Afghanistan has tumbled since June — down from 63 percent in June to just 51 percent in November.
Obama’s lowest approval rating on a specific issue is the budget deficit — just 31 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling the budget deficit according to Pew.
The poll was conducted from October 28 to November 8 and was of 2000 adults on both cell phones and landlines across the country.
