Well, so far it looks like Grant County will see an incredible turnout, at least by recent standards, in today’s election. I visited 7 precincts this afternoon to check on turnout and see if there had been any problems. Uniformly, poll workers told me the day had been a smooth one and there had been [...]

There was a huge influx of early voters on Friday and Saturday, if you compare the numbers from Thursday to the numbers released by Grant County clerk Howie Morales yesterday: So, it looks like the party breakdown of the early voters remained unchanged, with 66 percent of early voters calling themselves Democrats. Registered Republicans made [...]

Tomorrow night I’ll once again host live election coverage on Community Access Television of Silver City. The show will being at 7:15 p.m., and Grant County Clerk Howie Morales tells me we’ll have most of the results by 7:30. He’s sponsoring the show, because he knows how important it is to get this information out [...]

See today’s Silver City Daily Press for more.

Gov. Bill Richardson stopped by Penny Park this afternoon for a campaign rally with local Democratic candidates and area supporters. Richardson urged support for the Democratic ticket, including Jeff Bingaman, James Lewis, Mary Herrera and Hector Balderas. He also highlighted Gary King, Jim Baca and Sandy Jones as candidates in tight, important races. He then [...]

Wow: U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., has violated the spirit of a federal rule prohibiting mass mailings with public money to constituents in the 90 days before an election. In doing so, he’s used taxpayer dollars to campaign for re-election. Pearce’s congressional office recently sent out more than 4,800 letters to constituents about the “scourge” [...]

So, like Julia’s crew up north, we’ve completed our discussion on endorsements, and we’ll be publishing those endorsements tomorrow. It’s a busy time at the office, needless to say. I’d like to echo Julia’s sentiments: Also, if you are a political candidate reading this, I have a bone to pick with (almost) all of you. [...]

Pay attention to the debate tonight between Patricia Madrid and Heather Wilson, especially to any questions that come up about Iraq. She may try to advocate a “new” position on the war, because the White House has given embattled Republican incumbents political cover: But the White House is cutting and running from “stay the course.” [...]

Via Headwaters News comes this NY Times piece on Bernalillo and Placitas, and voters living in the northern New Mexico communities: In interviews with nearly two dozen people in Bernalillo, a small, mostly Hispanic town on Route 66, and its neighbor, Placitas, which is more affluent and increasingly more Republican, voters expressed their concerns about [...]

That’s right, the only debate Pearce would agree to — held at 4:30 in the afternoon in August — which he prevented from being broadcast. Heath Haussamen obtained the video from the Al Kissling campaign. The 56-minute debate is available by clicking on this link. Haussaman adds: While we’re on the subject of debate ducking, [...]

I received this note in my e-mail this morning: Both the Grant County Democratic and Republican parties are sponsoring a candidate debate this coming Thursday, October 26, 6 pm at the County Administration Building. Be there! I haven’t heard anything else about this, nor have we at the Daily Press. But I’ll see what I [...]

Via Kevin, there’s this snippet at NRO’s The Corner: A well-connected Republican source who was running through the most competitive House races this morning said, “If we lose Heather Wilson, we lose the House.” The explanation was that Wilson has faced tough reelection races in the past and so knows what she’s up against. She’s [...]