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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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
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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…
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.…
The economy has taken center stage in this presidential election, but more than a few people, including teachers, school administrators and other educators, are looking at candidates’ education platforms.
“If you watched the last debate, you saw how far apart…
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.”
Amber Carrillo, the Native American vote director for the New Mexico Campaign for Change, has been quite the busy woman over the past few months. And it’s all coming to a head right now.
From shepherding a near-clean-sweep of endorsements…
The New York Times is reporting that John McCain will make an Election Day visit to New Mexico. McCain is already slated to visit Roswell today to rally southern New Mexicans.
So you’ve had enough jabber about Sarah Palin’s lipstick? Political jokes about putting lipstick on a whatever? Lipstick talk, period?
Well, Palin may have lasted until the campaign’s final moments, but in the world of retail, Hillary Clinton’s lipstick lasted…
Every scientific poll conducted in the last week shows Barack Obama currently leads John McCain in New Mexico. The Albuquerque Journal poll puts his lead at 8 percent among likely and early voters, with the other three at seven points, 10 points and 17 points. So the question is, how much does Obama really lead by.
Rudy Giuliani asked an enthusiastic crowd of about 200 people at a rally in Mesilla today to prove the polls wrong and elect John McCain on Tuesday. In a speech full of shots at Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson and the media, the former GOP presidential candidate and New York mayor said the polls have been wrong before.
Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he’s confident that undecided New Mexico voters are swinging toward John McCain and Steve Pearce in the final days before the election.
“The question is whether we can move them enough that we can win,” Romney said today in a phone interview.
John McCain will make one more stop in New Mexico before Election Day to hold a rally in Roswell on Monday.
McCain’s rally will be held at Great Southwest Aviation, 100 Southwest Way. Doors for the event…
Not so fast Obama supporters. The race is not over in New Mexico.
True, if you’re reasonably informed, you probably wouldn’t bet on any Republican being elected to office this year—GOP candidates can thank George W. Bush…
Two former presidential hopefuls will campaign for current candidates for the nation’s top job this weekend in southern New Mexico.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be in Mesilla on Saturday evening for a rally in…
Former GOP presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will be in Farmington and Albuquerque on Saturday to hold rallies in support of John McCain.
Romney’s New Mexico trip begins with a 9 a.m. rally in Farmington.…
Ask Republican candidates for office what they think their chances are on Tuesday, and even many of those who have no shot at winning — if you believe the polls — express optimism. Ask GOP operatives what they expect on Election Day, and promise them anonymity in exchange for their answers, and you get a much different answer.
