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.
Doña Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez leads former state party chair Allen Weh 41 to 30 percent with less than a week before the primary, shows a poll commissioned by New Mexico Politics With Joe Monahan and…
Arizona’s tough new anti-immigration law has the support of 70 percent of whites—but only 31 percent of Latinos. And while the law is favored by 61 percent of all Americans, nearly the same percentage (58 percent) of Latinos say they…
Congress and the White House have reached a compromise on repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy that says openly gay men and women can’t serve in the military. The measure is moving quickly and could soon come to…
On Fox News today, Republican pollster Frank Luntz gave his thumbs-up for a campaign ad by public relations firm owner Doug Turner, one of many candidates vying for the Republican nomination for New Mexico governor.
Luntz said of the ad,…
There’s an interesting bit of data buried in the most recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Despite some loud calls for a repeal of the health care reform bill, more people would rather take a wait-and-see approach to health care…
Former state Democratic Party chair Brian Colón leads the race for lieutenant governor with 20.6 percent of the respondents, according to a poll for New Mexico Politics by Joe Monahan, conducted by Roswell-based Dialing Services.
Executive director of the Mid-Region…
President Barack Obama leads former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson by a wide margin in a hypothetical presidential matchup, according to a poll from a Democratic polling firm from North Carolina. Obama leads other potential Republican candidates by smaller…
According to a poll by a Democratic polling firm, Rep. Martin Heinrich is in a good position for re-election, leading his Republican opponent 55 percent to 38 percent.
Weh campaign spokesman Chris Sanchez simply told The Independent: “The Tarrance Group does not do push polls.”
The Tarrance Group is the polling company that Weh has hired for his campaign; it has previously been accused of push polling.
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A poll by Gallup Polling shows that Americans who have heard or read about the new Arizona law are supportive of the bill, although that support is sharply split along partisan lines. It also finds that nearly a third…
A new study of race and politics released this week by the University of Washington reveals insight into how supporters of the tea party movement—the vast majority of whom are white—view blacks and Hispanics. Of the 45 percent…
Most of the 100 participants interviewed by The Independent at tea party events in Albuquerque in Santa Fe Thursday said they will probably vote in the Republican primary in June—but they haven’t yet settled on a candidate.
Tomorrow is the deadline to file federal income taxes and taxes are on the minds of many Americans. A recent national poll shows that six-in-ten Americans expect their taxes to go up. Also comes the news of a…
Common Cause New Mexico is touting new polling that shows that voters in the 1st and 2nd congressional districts are concerned about special-interest influence in Washington and want campaign-finance reform.
Tom Jensen, at the Public Policy Polling blog, theorizes that Sen. Tom Udall might be protected from the negative favorability ratings that some of his freshman Democratic colleagues have suffered from because he previously held statewide office. Udall, before…
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, a Democrat, is ahead of five potential Republican challengers, according to the first public polling of the New Mexico gubernatorial race. Her nearest challenger is Pete Domenici Jr.; she has the support of 45 percent of those polled to his 40 percent. Denish is also best known of all the candidates, with 75 percent name recognition.
A poll commissioned by the Steve Pearce campaign shows that the Republican challenger leads incumbent Democratic Congressman Harry Teague by four points. The survey of 401 likely voters shows Pearce with a 48 percent to 44 percent lead over Teague;…
Pete Domenici Jr. is ahead of Las Cruces District Attorney Susana Martinez by nearly 18 points— in a poll that was conducted before Domenici admitted to using cocaine and marijuana as a young man.
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,…
According to a recent poll, which included New Mexico, most Latinos expect both health care and immigration reform legislation to be finished by the 2010 midterms. And if Congress does not pass both, Democrats should expect lower turnout from…
