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 Republican Congressman Steve Pearce leads first-term Democratic congressman Harry Teague by four points in New Mexico’s hotly contested 2nd Congressional District race, according to a new poll released today.
With just under four weeks to go before the Nov. 2 election, 46 percent of voters preferred Pearce to Teague who received 42 percent of support among likely voters, according to a poll issued today by The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Part of Pearce’s advantage comes from his ability to siphon off a part of Teague’s base — 16 percent of likely Democratic voters surveyed preferred Pearce to Teague, the poll found.
The race is tight however, reflected in the 10 percent of voters who still remain undecided, the poll found.
The margin of error in the Hill/ANGA poll is 4.9 percent, meaning Teague’s deficit is within that margin.
In a story accompanying the poll The Hill noted that Teague’s path to victory “could be to tap into undecided voters — 39 percent are Democrats and 21 percent are independents. To do that, he’ll have to overcome a traditional skepticism about one-party control that is causing some undecided voters to say they prefer a divided government.”
Pearce, however, is a tough opponent, having served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives before giving up that seat to run for the U.S. Senate in 2008.
The Hill/ANGA poll was conducted Sept. 28-30 and consisted of 401 phone interviews among likely voters.
