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 Quinnipiac University poll shows the vast majority of those in the Tea Party movement consider themselves Republicans or Republican-leaning Independents. Although a Republican would beat a Democrat on a generic House ballot (that is, an unnamed Republican candidate for Congress versus an unnamed Democratic candidate for Congress) 44-39 percent. But when a tea party candidate is added into the mix, Democrats beat Republicans 36- 25 percent, with the tea party candidate getting 15 percent.
The poll finds that 74 percent of those who consider themselves part of the party movement are Republicans or independents who lean Republican. Just 16 percent are Democrats or independents who lean towards the Democratic Party and five percent of solidly independent.
The poll finds that 55 percent of the tea party movement is made up of women, and 45 percent of men. Polls usually show that women are a group that lean towards Democrats, so this is a bit of a surprise in the poll.
In addition, the poll found that 77 percent of those in the tea party movement voted for John McCain, and 88 percent of those in the tea party movement are white.
The findings could mean that if the tea party members are, indeed, the Republican base. If so, it also shows the Republican base has another option electorally besides the Republican Party.
Earlier today, Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine told the Huffington Post the Democrats will attempt to tie Republicans to some of the over-the-top rhetoric on health care from tea party members, including racial and homophobic slurs against Democratic members of Congress. Kaine also mentioned vandalization of offices of Democratic members of Congress.
The poll was from March 16-21 and of 1,907 registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 2.2 percentage points. The survey includes 253 voters who say they are part of the Tea Party movement, with a margin of error of +/- 6.2 percentage points.
