Carol Miller
ABQ Journal House polling not close to final results
When the results in New Mexico came flowing in and showed the Democrats had swept all three U.S. House seats last Tuesday, it came as a shock. Not a shock that it had been done — the possibility had become a probability in the run-up to the elections — but a shock in how easily [...]
Mapping the N.M. vote: Congressional races
While much of the attention was on the presidential election during the past few months, all political eyes are now on Minnesota, Alaska and Georgia’s U.S. Senate races. Alaska and Minnesota are still counting ballots, while Georgia is readying itself for a special election next month. Here in New Mexico, there was not as much drama in the race for Senate or even, ultimately, any of the open House seats.
What do you say after you’ve lost an election?
What do you say to your supporters after you’ve just suffered a rather sizable defeat at the hands of Barack Obama and the Democratic tidal wave?
Darren White, the 1st Congressional District Republican candidate who lost by 11 points to Democrat Martin Heinrich last week, chose congeniality in a message he posted on his Web site.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Can straight ticket to voter laziness be abolished?
New Mexico is one of only 16 states that still has a straight-party voting option on its ballots, and Green Party candidate Rick Lass says he will lobby to abolish it. A beheaded man was left hanging from an overpass in Ciudad Juarez Thursday, a gruesome calling card in the latest violence in the Mexican [...]
Dems hit grand slam in N.M. congressional races (update)
Democrats swung at the pitch offered up when longtime Republican Sen. Pete Domenici stepped aside and hit a grand slam Tuesday night, winning all four open congressional seats his retirement created.
Lujan walks away with the CD3 race
Democrat Ben Ray Lujan will represent New Mexico’s Third Congressional District in the House of Representatives, taking the seat vacated by newly elected U.S. senator Tom Udall. In a three-way race, his closest challenger, Republican Dan East, conceded the race at about 10 p.m. Tuesday night, with most New Mexico precincts reporting.
Excluding Carol Miller
On the phone, Carol Miller told me KOB-TV clearly, intentionally refused to let her join the hour-long program. Confusing, she said, because she saw stories on the KOB Web site about this year’s upsurge in independent candidacies and women’s candidacies and also a report that she’s currently polling in the double digits.
N.M. congressional candidates sound off on big bad bailout (updated)
New Mexico’s large crop of would-be federal representatives — including two candidates for U.S. Senate and six House candidates — all react to the proposed $700 billion bailout for Wall Street and the economy in general.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Early voting machines least accurate in counting ballots, audit finds
An audit of Bernalillo County ballots shows vote counting machines have a very low margin of error, differing an average of 1.9 percent from hand-counting, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The audit of ballots cast in the 2006 election was conducted by UNM along with the California Institute of Technology and the University of Utah. [...]