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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.
White House to get a new puppy… but what kind?
During his victory speech Tuesday night, President-elect Barack Obama promised his daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, that their reward for putting up with the campaign would be a new puppy.
Presidential pets — especially dogs — have a long and storied history (anyone remember Checkers?), and have included Eisenhower’s Weimaraner, Kennedy’s Welsh terrier (and Caroline’s [...]
N.M. Republicans may be down, but they’re hardly out
Despite the tears and occasional jeers at the New Mexico Republican Party’s election-watch event Tuesday, rays of hope began to emerge. Are any of them ready to heed the call to turn around and get right back into another election? (And, yes, another election is our reward for getting through this one.)
The party that was over before it started: Republicans ate, drank but were not merry
The first rule of any veteran election-night party-goer is this: Don’t show up on time. At 7 p.m., the bar may be open and the buffet full-up, but the real fun won’t start until results start pouring in. For Republicans on Tuesday, the sentiment seemed to be don’t show up at all.
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.
Opinion of one
The Albuquerque Journal’s John McCain endorsement was the dictate of one man — publisher T.H. Lang — and it calls to mind the brute constitutional insight attributed to the late New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling: “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
I bet Martin Heinrich doesn’t have an FDR tattoo…
File this one in the hero worship folder. Thanks to the intrepid reporting of Politico, we now know that 1st Congressional District GOP nominee Darren White really, really likes Ronald Reagan, the late Republican icon and former president.
Need proof? There it is on White’s ankle.
Another poll shows Heinrich ahead in CD1
Democrat Martin Heinrich continues to hold onto a slim lead in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, yet another poll is showing. Blogger Joe Monahan says in today’s “New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan” that an automated poll conducted for him this week gives Heinrich 53 percent to Republican challenger Darren White’s 44 percent.