By Avelino Maestas on Jun 17, 2008 in 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Blogs, Democrats, Harry Teague, Martin Heinrich, Steve Pearce, Tom Udall | 0 Comments
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 elections [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Feb 19, 2008 in 2008 Election, Democrats, Personal, Transparency | 3 Comments
No less than four women called me “Mr. Fancy Pants” when I relayed I had been interviewed by the New York Times yesterday. I imagine they must teach this term during girl’s physical education classes in grade school,1 since I don’t remember it on the general curriculum and its use seems confined to the female [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Feb 6, 2008 in 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton | 0 Comments
The latest from KOB (they’ve had some of the best info, IMO) has Sen. Hillary Clinton up by 210 votes, while Sen. Barack Obama was ahead this morning. However, if I’m reading their story right, Rio Rancho’s results still haven’t been tallied:
State Democratic Party leaders said 16,871 provisional ballots were being counted Wednesday.
At noon Wednesday, [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Feb 6, 2008 in 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton | 0 Comments
Looks like New Mexico is continuing in its tradition of not picking a winner outright, and making the nation cool on its heels while the Land of Enchantment counts ballots:
New Mexico’s Democratic caucus remained unsettled early Wednesday morning as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama were separated by just 117 votes with nearly 17,000 provisional [...]
By Avelino Maestas on Feb 5, 2008 in 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton | 0 Comments
(Update: I should mention that this information should be taken with a grain of salt, because I have no idea how reliable the data is.)
LP has already mentioned the overall results indicated by CNN’s exit poll1 from New Mexico. However, I wanted to take a look at a few things that stand out to me, [...]