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.
I’m not talking about the trite slogans of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. I’m talking about the grassroots uprising of America’s citizens. The number of registered voters is at an all-time high. Political activism is at levels previously unheard of. Early voting in this election is already at record levels.
To follow-up on an earlier blog post by Kate Nelson, there is at least one Santa Fe newspaper that believes the election is a foregone conclusion.
The New Mexico Sun News will never be considered part of the traditional…
Republican calls for Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens to resign after his conviction on corruption charges this week could get the Democratic Party one crucial step closer to the cherished 60-vote margin in the U.S. Senate, and put Republicans John…
Sarah Palin is drawing jeers from the campaign’s big boys for refusing to stick to their script and seeming to reject the notion of an ’08 victory. She’s clearly ticked off at how the campaign handled coverage of her…
What’s black and white and red all over?
The embarrassed mainstream media, if Barack Obama loses to John McCain.
That’s the conundrum raised by the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, who quotes Boston University’s Tobe Berkovitz, associate dean of the…
On Tuesday, Mike Duhaime, John McCain’s political director, uncorked the finest vintage of political spin I have heard this political season. If you’re a John McCain supporter, Mr. Duhaim’s lyrical, succinct and uplifting assessment should give you…
New Mexico Democrats appear to be taking Barack Obama to heart. Through Monday, more than 132,000 registered Democrats had voted early or by absentee across the state, compared to 71,187 registered Republican voters, the Secretary of State’s office reported Tuesday.
The addictive electoral polling analysis Web site FiveThirtyEight took a look at New Mexico and its electoral outlook on the presidential level.
“Hopefully this year New Mexico will be able to report its results during the same week as…
As Nov. 4 approaches, Ricardo Luna and Joseph Lange may well symbolize the ongoing change in a culture group largely responsible for President Bush’s victories in 2000 and 2004 — evangelicals. One is considering casting his ballot for Barack Obama. The other is voting for John McCain.
To really understand Ohio, you need a far-reaching anthropological knowledge that few possess. Sometimes, people “get it.” This would most certainly include the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, now engaged in an all-out assault to win the state’s 20 electoral votes.
“Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance,” wrote The New York Times last week in its endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for president. “The United States is battered…
Once again, New Mexico is one of maybe a dozen battleground states lavished with personal attention by the presidential candidates in the campaign’s final days. No more proof is needed than Saturday’s same-day dueling Albuquerque visits by John McCain in the morning, Barack Obama at night.
If Republican Sen. John McCain still holds any hope of winning New Mexico’s five electoral votes next week, it might come down to Sandoval County voters like John Vento, Mary Martinez and Ralph Giffin, voters who as recently as mid-October still didn’t know who they would support for president.
If the two presidential rallies in Albuquerque on Saturday were songs, John McCain’s would have been a solemn ballad and Barack Obama’s a rollicking party tune. The McCain rally was subdued, even quiet, causing one to wonder if at any moment the plaintive strains of a bagpipe were about to pierce the chilly morning air. Obama supporters, on the other hand, danced and chanted.
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A sea of humanity greeted Barack Obama like a victor Saturday night. But the Democratic presidential nominee was quick to try to dispel any sense of overconfidence in the large crowd that effectively turned Johnson Field on the campus of University of New Mexico into a large megaphone.
Today’s Albuquerque rally marked John McCain’s sixth visit to New Mexico and represented the Arizona senator’s last-ditch effort to keep Democrat Barack Obama from wrestling the Land of Enchantment out of the R column and notching a D on it.
New Mexico is a target in the NRA’s national campaign to paint Barack Obama as a threat to gun owners. John McCain appears to be losing the battle for Hispanics, or it would seem that way in Española.…
Details have been released for the rallies Barack Obama and John McCain plan to hold in Albuquerque on Saturday.
Our quadrennial exercise in democracy has once again come down to this predictable predictor: sales of Halloween masks. John McCain or Barack Obama? Can $10 worth of latex foretell the victor?
In Las Cruces, sales of Barack Obama and…
