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.
Tom Jensen, at the Public Policy Polling blog, theorizes that Sen. Tom Udall might be protected from the negative favorability ratings that some of his freshman Democratic colleagues have suffered from because he previously held statewide office. Udall, before becoming a Congressman in the 3rd Congressional District, served two terms as state Attorney General.
Udall’s has a “solid 48/36 approval spread” which is in line with Freshman Democratic Senators Mark Warner and Jeanne Shaheen — not like other freshman Democratic Senators Kay Hagan, Jeff Merkley, Mark Begich, and Mark Udall (Tom’s cousin) who have negative approval spreads.
Both Warner and Shaheen served as governors of their respective states (Virginia and New Hampshire) before becoming U.S. Senators.
All of the Senators named replaced Republican Senators; Tom Udall replaced Sen. Pete Domenici after Domenici retired.
Tom and Mark Udall where the only two of the group to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives before becoming Senators; both served for 10 years.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., New Mexico’s senior Senator, also served as state Attorney General before becoming Senator and had an identical 48/36 approval spread as Tom Udall in the PPP poll. However, unlike Udall, Bingaman has been in office since 1983.
