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.
First-term Democratic congressman Harry Teague is polling slightly ahead of Republican challenger — and former congressman — Steve Pearce in the closely watched 2nd Congressional District race, according to results released today from the Albuquerque Journal Poll.
Teague, who won the 2nd Congressional District seat in 2008, got the nod from 45 percent of all district voters surveyed while 42 percent supported Pearce, the paper reported. That’s what we call in political reporting a toss up because Teague’s three-point lead is within the poll’s 5 percent margin of error.
Even more telling, the Journal reports, independent voters in the 2nd Congressional District were almost evenly divided between the two men. Independent voters could be the determining factor in what is perhaps New Mexico’s hottest congressional race, according to the paper.
Thirteen percent of likely voters remained undecided in the race, the Journal Poll found.
The 2nd Congressional District race is particularly compelling, given that Teague became the first Democrat to win the seat in 2008 and that Pearce is the man he replaced.
Pearce gave up the seat Teague now holds after three two-year terms in the U.S. House of Representatives to run for U.S. Senate in 2008. Democrat Tom Udall handily beat Pearce to win that seat in the 2008 general election.
