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.
Internal polls released by Harry Teague’s campaign show the freshman Democrat is roughly even with Steve Pearce in the 2nd Congressional District race. The move to release the poll came after a taunt by the National Republican Campaign Committee…
The scandals that have hit Governor Bill Richardson over the past year have taken their toll on his approval rating. The once-popular Democrat is now among “the least popular Governors in the country.” Now 63 percent of voters in…
According to Public Policy Polling’s official Twitter feed, Wednesday’s poll results will bring a mixture of bad and good news for New Mexico Democrats. Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm, chose New Mexico and Texas as areas to poll…
Gallup does an annual poll of the well-being of those in every state and congressional district. New Mexico overall ranks 31st of the 50 states in the country while New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District once again ranks below the…
A poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press ahead of the 2010 midterm elections shows some bad news for incumbents but perhaps not as bad as in other so-called “wave” years. Still, Pew reports,…
A recent poll shows that although the Republican Party has made a small gain in partisanship figures, New Mexico still remains one of the states with the most self-identified Democrats. New Mexico, Gallup finds, is one of 23 states…
A poll commissioned by the liberal advocacy organizations the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America shows that if health care reform passes, Rep. Martin Heinrich and Rep. Harry Teague are more likely to be re-elected in 2010.…
According to a study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, New Mexicans are slightly less religious than folks in other states around the nation. Out of those polled, 53 percent of New Mexicans say religion is very…
The Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) has an online poll asking readers which district the firm should poll next. Two of the options are New Mexico’s 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts.
According to polling conducted by SurveyUSA for KOB-TV, New Mexicans have positive job approval ratings for Senators Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Tom Udall, D-N.M.
Bingaman, a five-term senator from Silver City, has an approval rating of 58 percent according to…
President Barack Obama’s approval rate among New Mexicans is 50 percent, the lowest since his inauguration, according to the September SurveyUSA polling for KOB-TV. The survey shows 50 percent approve of the job Obama is doing as President, while 45 percent…
According to Pew’s annual Public Evaluations of the News Media survey, the public’s perception of accuracy in news has reached a two-decade low. And the most dominant source of people’s local, national and international news is television.
New Mexico’s U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both Democrats, have high approval ratings in the latest Albuquerque Journal poll. Bingaman has an approval rating of 61 percent and a disapproval rating of 21 percent, while Udall has…
President Barack Obama holds an approval rating of 53 percent among registered voters in New Mexico, according to a poll conducted by Research and Polling for the Albuquerque Journal.
While national polling shows a majority of Americans prefer the public option, a poll conducted by Research and Polling Inc. for the Albuquerque Journal found that a plurality of registered voters in New Mexico oppose the public option.…
According to Gallup (hat tip to John Fleck), New Mexico is the state with the second-highest percentage of uninsured residents, trailing only our neighbors to the east, Texas. Over a quarter of New Mexicans — 25.6 percent to…
According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control, one-fifth (20.2 percent to be exact) of households in the United States are wireless only. The data is from the second half of 2008, between July and December.
It feels like a long time since we have had any news about Val Kilmer and his potential gubernatorial run — but now we have word of a suspicious poll.
The poll was first noted by blogger Joe Monahan,…
New Mexico ranks ninth in the percentage of households that are cell-phone only, according to a study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
The study says that 21.1 percent of New Mexican households and 20.5 percent of…
A new poll by McClatchy/Ipsos, which will be released today, shows that conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh is not too popular among the general public.
Roughly one of three Americans has a favorable opinion of the conservative talk…
