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.
Republicans are keeping up with Democrats in early voting in the state’s most populous county and exceeding Democrats in the number of absentee ballots returned, according to the Bernalillo County Clerk’s office.
So far, 34,645 voters have cast early in-person ballots and another 20,447 have returned their absentee ballots. Among those who have voted early in-person, 15,806 are Democrats, 15,056 are Republicans and 3,783 are “other.” That includes both those registered to third-parties and decline-to-state voters.
Republicans are outstripping Democrats in the number of absentee ballots returned. Of the more than 20,000 absentee ballots returned, 10,900 are from registered Republicans and another 8,532 are from registered Democrats. The remaining 1,871 are listed as “other.”
In the 2008 general election, over 126,000 early in-person voters cast early in person votes in Bernalillo County. Of those, 69,385 were Democrats, 37,430 were Republicans and the remaining 19,929 were decline to state or third party voters.
Turnout is always higher in presidential elections than midterm elections such as this year’s elections.
