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.
Heath Haussamen of NMPolitics.com gets the scoop that former Lt. Gov. Diane Denish is considering running for the First District House seat being vacated by Rep. Martin Heinrich. She said a run is “still on the table.”
The Washington Post is reporting that Sen. Jeff Bingaman will announce his retirement today. Earlier this month, Public Policy Polling found the New Mexico Democrat to be a “near lock” for re-election, with an approval rating of 56 percent.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish outspent Gov.-elect Susana Martinez in the bitter gubernatorial race. Denish spent over $7 million on her bid to become governor while Martinez spent $6.7 million.
Republican Gov.-elect Susana Martinez promised repeatedly during this year’s election to try to repeal a law allowing illegal immigrants to get New Mexico drivers licenses and to revoke thousands of already-issued documents. But interviews with state lawmakers this week make clear that undoing the law isn’t a sure thing when the New Mexico Legislature convenes in Santa Fe in January for one of the toughest sessions in recent memory.
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.
According to New York Times polling expert Nate Silver, Rasmussen Reports is the big loser in this year’s midterm election. For two years, Rasmussen Reports’ polling results were consistently more favorable to Republicans than Democrats, Silver writes. And while…
Republican Susana Martinez cruised to victory Tuesday, riding a crest of voter discontent and anger over a broken economy to become New Mexico’s first female governor — and the first Hispanic woman in the country to lead a U.S. state. Unofficial results late Tuesday showed Martinez capturing nearly 54 percent of the vote, to Democrat Diane Denish’s 46 percent.
Brian Sanderoff and NBC News have projected that Republican Susana Martinez will win the race for governor.
Sanderoff, a respected pollster who does the Albuquerque Journal poll, made the call on KOAT-TV a few minutes ago.
Meanwhile a big cheer…
Republican Susana Martinez leads Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish by 10 points in New Mexico’s governor’s race according to the latest Albuquerque Journal poll. Martinez’s increased lead appears to come from her ability to woo many previously undecided voters…
A Democratic PAC is sending a mailer to New Mexico voters that appears to urge them not to vote for a little-known write-in candidate because he is too conservative. But it actually appears to be an attempt to convince tea…
President Barack Obama has recorded a telephone message that will be used to target infrequent Democratic voters and 2008 Democratic voters in New Mexico, according to a press release from the Denish campaign.
“Two years ago you stood with me…
Susana Martinez has raised more money than Diane Denish has in the last few weeks—but she’s spent more, too.
Martinez raised $1.07 million and spent $2.1 million in the period that ran from October 5 to October 26. Denish raised…
This time around Democrat Diane Denish claimed the eye-popping contributions and raised the most out-of-state money. But two six-figure contributions and nearly $600,000 in out-of-state money wasn’t enough to power Denish past Republican Susana Martinez in dollars raised during the waning days of the 2010 New Mexico governor’s race, campaign finance reports filed Thursday show.
In a sharp rebuke of Democratic Secretary of State Mary Herrera (whose office will announce next Tuesday’s election results), five of New Mexico’s major newspapers endorsed state Sen. Diana Duran, Herrera’s Republican challenger.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez decided not to speak to another alt-weekly for its endorsement interview. Martinez did not meet with the Weekly Alibi in Albuquerque for an endorsement interview. The Alibi wrote that Martinez was “the only candidate…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez was the first gubernatorial candidate in the history of the alternative weekly Santa Fe Reporter to skip out on an endorsement interview, the paper reported today. Martinez followed in the footsteps of Republican Senate…
Susana Martinez’s leads by 10 percent in the gubernatorial race, virtually unchanged from a 9 percent lead earlier this month, accordging to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. The new poll shows Martinez is leading her Democratic opponent Diane Denish…
An internal poll from the Susana Martinez campaign shows that her lead remains 8 percent. This comes in response to a poll from the Denish released earlier today that showed the race almost tied.
Martinez’s poll of likely voters…
An internal poll conducted for the campaign of Diane Denish shows that the race between Denish and Republican Susana Martinez is essentially tied. The poll’s results show that Martinez is ahead by just 1 percent, 46 percent to 45 percent.…
According to the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal Washington D.C. think tank, the Latino vote will be key in New Mexico and several other states with close electoral races looming in November. New Mexico has the highest…
