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.
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson came in last place in a Presidential straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, held in New Orleans this past weekend. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the straw poll—which Nate Silver warns is not necessarily representative of Republicans or even Southern Republicans—by a single vote over Ron Paul.
Johnson, who has not announced that he is running for President in 2012, also spoke at the conference. Other potential 2012 Republican candidates, including Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee were also included in the straw poll.
One has to wonder if the three voters who cast their ballots for Johnson would have instead voted for Paul, who Johnson endorsed in the 2008 presidential election, if Johnson had not been on the straw poll ballot, giving Paul the win over Romney. Paul won a previous straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Johnson was not included in the CPAC straw poll.
Johnson did beat out Paul, however, for the most second choices at the SRLC straw poll.
