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N.M. voters and pollsters didn’t quite see eye to eye
The average of New Mexico polls taken in the last week showed an 8.9 percent lead for Barack Obama over John McCain. The current election results, as of Wednesday afternoon, show a 14.9 percent margin of victory for Obama — a six point swing from the polls to the unofficial results.
Mapping the N.M. vote
Barack Obama won New Mexico with a healthy 14.6 percent margin of victory last Tuesday. But New Mexico as a solid blue state doesn’t tell the whole story. Not all of New Mexico went equally to Obama or his GOP challenger John McCain. Some areas were more favorable to the Democratic candidate, some to the Republican.
The UFO beat: Obama aliens stalled by computer problems
The Prophet Yahweh, as we noted in a previous post, had hoped to summon UFOs for Obama on Halloween. Their purpose was to tell the world that a vote for John McCain over Barack Obama was a vote for war, pestilence and general havoc.
Alas, the hopes of Yahweh, the Las Vegas, Nev., director of the [...]
A mandate for cooperation and bipartisanship
We’ve known since the first rebuking of the GOP in the 2006 election that 2008 was going to be a Democratic year. We all knew the party of the right would lose some additional ground in the U.S. House and Senate. But as the dust settles in New Mexico, it’s becoming clear that this was a complete slaughter.
Enthusiastic crowd greets Senator-elect Tom Udall
When Senator-elect Tom Udall took the stage at the Albuquerque Convention Center on Tuesday night, he had to wait a few minutes before he could give his acceptance speech. There was no technology snafu or that sort of thing. The crowd was just too loud.
For nearly two minutes, the crowd cheered, even cutting off the [...]
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.
McCain in ABQ: Last hurrah or a victory send-off?
John McCain made one final, quick stop in Albuquerque this afternoon to greet 75 to 100 supporters working a phone bank and briefly spoke to a crowd that had gathered outside the state Republican Party offices.
Two counties in N.M. to watch
Politico has a list of 25 key counties to watch for the presidential election. And two New Mexico counties are near the top of the list. Here they are, according to Politico:
3) Bernalillo County: Home to about one-third of New Mexico’s population, Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County is critical for both campaigns. Obama will likely carry the [...]
Don’t believe the exit polls
Nate Silver of the popular polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight gave 10 reasons why those watching the elections on TV and online should ignore the exit polls. Exit polls were famously wrong in recent elections.
One reason is that it is nearly impossible to actually get a random sample:
Although the exit polls have theoretically established procedures to [...]
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: It’s Election Day!
Record turnout for early voting is the lead story in most New Mexico newspapers today, but elections officials from Secretary of State Mary Herrera on down say they still expect long lines at polling stations today, the traditional Election Day. Republican presidential candidate John McCain seems to have taken up residency in New Mexico, and [...]