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.
A recent poll shows that although the Republican Party has made a small gain in partisanship figures, New Mexico still remains one of the states with the most self-identified Democrats. New Mexico, Gallup finds, is one of 23 states (plus the District of Columbia) “that can be classified as solidly Democratic.”
The numbers include Independents who say they lean toward either the Democratic or Republican Party.
The Democratic advantage in party identification dropped from 14 percent to 13 percent. This ranks New Mexico as the 16th most-Democratic leaning state. Four of the top five states are from New England (the fifth is Hawaii).
In the 2008 elections, the entire party’s Congressional delegation was Democratic for the first time, thanks to the retirement of longtime Republican Senator Pete Domenici and the resulting fallout.
The results came from all the polling conducted by Gallup in 2009.
According to Gallup, “The margin of error for most states is ±2 percentage points, but is as high as ±4 percentage points for Delaware, Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia.”
