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 state Democratic Party chair Brian Colón leads the race for lieutenant governor with 20.6 percent of the respondents, according to a poll for New Mexico Politics by Joe Monahan, conducted by Roswell-based Dialing Services.
Executive director of the Mid-Region Council of Governments Lawrence Rael had 13.5 percent of the vote, State Rep. Joe Campos had 12.9 percent, State Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino came in with 9.6 percent and State Sen. Linda Lopez was the pick of 8.9 percent of respondents.
“Brian has a seven point lead and unless the trend we are seeing in this survey is interrupted, he is positioned to win,” Republican political analyst Bruce Donisthorpe told Monahan.
Primary races are notoriously had to poll and more than a third of respondents were undecided in this poll. This could reflect that a primary for Lt. Gov. is a lower-tier race and does not have as much media attention on the race.
The poll does, however, have a somewhat high margin of error. Dialing Services, LLC surveyed 356 likely Democratic voters between 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm on May 12. The margin of error is 5.19 percent.
The primary election will be held on June 1.
