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.
One of the biggest duties of the state legislature this year will be dealing with the decennial redistricting of congressional and legislative seats following last year’s U.S. Census. The state legislature posted preliminary data on redistricting on its website Wednesday for congressional, state House, state Senate and Public Regulations Commission seats.
This week Gov. Bill Richardson spoke to The Independent’s election-night panel on KNME about the campaign between Susana Martinez and Diane Denish, and about his record.
More than 200,000 New Mexicans chose to cast their ballots early this year according to the Secretary of State’s office. That’s a much higher early vote turnout than the last midterm election, in 2006, when about 132,500 people cast early ballots.…
So far, the Republican Governors Association (RGA) has outspent its Democratic counterpart, pumping $1.25 million into the contest compared to $900,000 from the Democratic Governors Association(DGA), state and federal records show. That edge has helped propel front-runner Republican Susana Martinez toward what increasingly looks like victory on Nov. 2. Martinez has led Lt. Gov. Diane Denish in every independent poll for months and the gap appears to be widening.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez leads Democratic candidate Diane Denish 47 percent to 41 percent according to the latest poll by Research and Polling, Inc. for the Albuquerque Journal. When “leaners” are included, Martinez leads 49 percent to 42 percent.…
Rep. Martin Heinrich continues to lead in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District according to the latest Albuquerque Journal poll conducted by Research & Polling, Inc. In New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, the poll shows that the two candidates are…
In out-of-state money, in oil-and-gas giving, in the number of eye-popping contributions, Republican Susana Martinez beat Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish in the battle of dollars and cents. But a comparison of the reports Wednesday showed something else: Republicans from outside of New Mexico care big-time about winning the New Mexico governor’s race.
The last time a Republican won a New Mexico Secretary of State election Herbert Hoover was the U.S. president and the Great Depression had begun a year earlier. But some political observers are wondering if 2010 might be the year of the GOP. First-term Democratic Secretary of State Mary Herrera is viewed as vulnerable after several employees have gone to the FBI to allege corruption in her administration.
Democratic incumbent Gary King leads his Republican challenger Matt Chandler by a wide margin more than two months before November’s election, according to Albuquerque Journal Poll results released today.
Nearly half of the voters — 48 percent…
With just over two months before the November election, Republican Susana Martinez leads Democrat Diane Denish by 6 percentage points in the race for governor, according to an Albuquerque Journal poll.
The poll results, released today, reveal the first comprehensive…
More than half of New Mexico’s legislative seats were decided Tuesday night, but 34 House seats are up for grabs in November. And most of those contested posts – 26 — belong to Democrats vs. eight that are currently in Republican hands.
Democrats have more to lose, while the GOP has notable momentum.
Hundreds of placard-waving Tea Party activists in Albuquerque weren’t sheepish Thursday about sharing ideas on where to trim government fat. Eliminate the federal Department of Education. Reduce foreign aid. Starve the defense budget. Cut back or phase out big domestic spending programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. They all came up as potential cost-savings measures.
Research and Polling, the New Mexico firm headed up by analyst Brian Sanderoff, recently posted an analysis of Albuquerque’s 2009 municipal election on its Web site. The analysis, a series of charts, shows that overall turnout was 25 percent…
In October 2009, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry won the mayoral race with just a few more Republican votes than were cast in 2005. But part of his success may be due to the fact that thousands of Democrats who voted in 2005 stayed home.
Diane Denish is still a giant. Heather Wilson’s indecision on whether to run for governor has sidelined some money but not enough to sink others’ chances. The four Republicans who have declared for governor are still in the hunt. That’s the bottom line for New Mexico pollster and analyst Brian Sanderoff after seeing the results of the campaign finance reports filed Tuesday in the governor’s race.
Gov. Bill Richardson’s withdrawal as U.S. commerce secretary-designate is more than a one-day story. It’s a game changer for New Mexico politics. To better flesh out the immediate impact, NMI talked with both a prominent local pollster and a University of New Mexico political scientist.
