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.
Freshman Democratic Congressman Ben Ray Lujan leads his Republican opponent Tom Mullins by 6 points, a Daily Kos/PPP poll released today shows.
Freshman Democratic Congressman Harry Teague and his Republican challenger, former Congressman Steve Pearce, are neck-and-neck heading into the final stretch of the campaign. A Daily Kos/PPP poll released today shows Pearce leading Teague by 1 point (48-47), well within the poll’s…
Freshman Democratic Congressman Martin Heinrich holds a significant lead over his Republican challenger Jon Barela according to a Daily Kos/PPP poll released today. The poll’s margin of error is 4.2 percent.
A poll commissioned by the Democratic Governor’s Association, which is supporting Diane Denish in the race for governor, shows that the race between Denish and Martinez is tied, with each candidate getting 46 percent of the vote.
That result is…
Republican Susana Martinez is leading Democrat Diane Denish by 8 points in the race to be New Mexico’s next governor, according to a recent Daily Kos/PPP poll.
The poll shows Martinez continuing to draw support from Democrats, whites and…
A majority of Americans support gay marriage, shows an Associated Press poll released this week. According to the poll, 52 percent of Americans said yes when asked: “Should the federal government give legal recognition to marriages between couples of…
There are so many polling firms measuring the generic ballot that it’s hard to make sense of them. But Talking Points Memo aggregates 20 of the most recent polls asking respondents if they’d vote for an unnamed (“generic”) Democrat or…
Democratic Rep. Harry Teague leads his Republican challenger, former Congressman Steve Pearce, 51 to 44 percent, according to a poll released today by The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
The survey of 400 likely voters was conducted September 7-9 by Anzalone Liszt…
This is why you should always take surprising polls with a grain of salt. Just last week, we reported that Republicans had a major national advantage over Democrats, according to Gallup’s “generic ballot” poll. But today Gallup says…
“I’m going to represent the people of the 2nd Congressional District, not represent a party,” freshman Democratic Rep. Harry Teague says in his first television ad of the campaign.
With that line Teague appears to be distancing himself from…
A major national poll revealed on Monday that right now, Republicans have a major national advantage over Democrats. According to the Gallup “generic ballot” poll asks respondents if they would rather vote for an unnamed Democrat or Republican for…
Americans appear to be equally divided on whether to legalize marijuana, according to a Rasmussen poll released yesterday. The survey of 1,000 adults conducted last week found 43 percent in favor of legalization while 42 percent said it should remain illegal—a…
Albuquerque freshman Rep. Martin Heinrich is trailing his Republican rival, Jon Barela, by six points, according to a Survey USA poll commissioned by KOB’s Eyewitness News 4. In a poll of 559 likely voters, taken July 22-25, Barela’s lead…
In a fundraising appeal sent to supporters ahead of the 2nd quarter fundraising deadline, Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Tom Mullins bragged that “the most recent Magellan poll has me in a dead heat (43 to 42 percent) with my opponent,” incumbent…
Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the liberal political blog Daily Kos, announced today that he’s filing suit against his pollster, Research 2000, alleging “that the weekly Research 2000 State of the Nation poll we ran the past year and a…
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s endorsement may not be a blessing to congressional candidates, Greg Sargent finds in the internals of a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. The same, to a much lesser degree, could be said…
The race between Republican Susana Martinez and Democrat Diane Denish is “a statistical dead heat,” according to Republican polling firm The Magellan Strategies. Although the poll showed that 44 percent of likely voters back Denish and 43 percent back…
Susana Martinez released a press release advertising her strategy for the New Mexico gubernatorial campaign, highlighting polling information and ballot trends.
Between March and now there’s been a striking change in public opinion on whether to prioritize environmental protection or energy production.
In March, 50 percent of Americans said it was more important to develop U.S. energy supplies than to protect…
At first glance today’s Rasmussen poll showing Democrat Diane Denish leads GOP guv candidate Susana Martinez looks like good news for Denish—until you remember that Denish led Martinez by 19 points in late March. But since then the five…
