I alluded in my Twitter feed a few weeks ago that I had purchased a tuxedo. Well, it’s inauguration season here in Washington D.C., and I’m going to celebrate in style courtesy of the New Mexico State Society. My sister and I are society members, and while she forked up the cash to get in, [...]

A roundup of the leadership changes in the 111th Congress, such as I could put together: With Democrats expanding their majorities in the House and Senate during the 2008 congressional elections, members of both parties sought to redefine the leadership structure within their respective caucuses. Some of the shuffling was predictable, while political calculation entered [...]

I imagine most of the people still in New Mexico who read this blog are watching the economic turmoil with a mixture of fear, anger and awe. So much of the current mess seems beyond our control and completely out of our hands. And, while I’d agree with that in part, there are a couple [...]

Head on over to NMFBIHOP, where I’m again writing morning news updates. They’re not all inclusive and certainly not insidery, but I try to hit the big stuff and hopefully some other stuff you may have missed otherwise. Morning updates are hot and fresh, 6 days a week! Also, if you’re not reading Matt’s work [...]

With my incredible interns helping with research, I wrote a massive recap of congressional primaries on Tuesday – seven states and the District of Columbia held nominating elections that day (you can read the preview here). The wrap up was so long we decided to split it into three sections: New England (Delaware, New Hampshire, [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry over on Huffington Post about the need for new congressional rules that would let members of Congress use the same social tools that their constituents are using: Facebook, Youtube, blogs, etc. It was all part of the Sunlight Foundation‘s campaign, Let our Congress Tweet. While we [...]

There are primaries happening today: It must be August: Congress is no longer in session and the congressional primary season is again heating up. According to our calendar, there are primary elections every week from now until mid-September. Candidates in three states – Kansas, Michigan and Missouri – are on the ballot tomorrow. As part [...]

(I’m liveblogging a discussion with four congressional candidates – click the links below to find their Congresspedia profiles, part of our Wiki-the-Vote project) 3:13 Annette Taddeo says that her opponent’s opposition to SCHIP was the biggest reason for getting into the race. 3:17 Dan Seals: I want to see Democrats not blow it – we [...]

My friends at Democracy for New Mexico and New Mexico FBIHOP are fundraising again: they’ve started an ActBlue page for all of the Democratic candidates for federal office in New Mexico. They inlcude: Sen. Barack Obama, Rep. Tom Udall, Martin Heinrich, Harry Teague, and Ben Ray Lujan. The netroots is playing a big role in [...]

I thought I’d use my time-zone advantage to get the news out for LP at NM FBIHOP: it looks like Rep. Steve Pearce defeated Rep. Heather Wilson for the GOP Senate nomination. He’ll go on to face Rep. Tom Udall in the November general election. The Associated Press called the race at 2 a.m., though [...]

From a post on the Pennsylvania primary election: As this CQ Politics article points out, regions in Pennsylvania that leaned toward Democrats in the most recent presidential and gubernatorial elections received more delegates from the state party. In addition, the state’s 19 congressional districts use a proportional system to determine how many delegates a candidate [...]

The New Mexico Sec. of State has announced the final ballot for the June congressional primary elections. It doesn’t look like there are any surprises: everybody who prequalified at the party nominating conventions is aready on the ballot. However, I guess everybody else running for the three seats being vacated by Rep. Steve Pearce, Rep. [...]