The people spoke, but will legislators listen?

In poll after poll prior to November 4th, New Mexican voters voiced their desire for change – not just generic change for change’s sake, but real change in the economy, real change in health care, real change in the war, real change in energy sources and real change in the ethical behavior of elected leaders.
Voters [...]

One More Election Retrospective: Winners and Losers Watch

The countdown has begun. It’s 60 days till the Obama Inauguration AND the opening gavel of the 2009 legislative session. What are we to make of the altered political landscape left in the wake of Election 2008? Who are some the real winners and losers?
NM Republicans… swept away
The following numbers tell a lot: In 2000, [...]

Obama’s Latino Mandate

Steve Cobble and Joe Velasquez, no strangers to New Mexico politics, analyze the historic impact of the Hispanic vote in the 2008 election. (link)

Time to get to work

As passion for the election – on both sides of the aisle – turns into the more difficult and less sexy day-to-day chore of governance and fixing real problems, regular columnist Paul Krugman and guest columnist Ramesh Ponnuru, from the ultra-conservative National Review, offered thoughtful commentaries in Friday’s The New York Times.

Putting this election to bed

The biggest, best-informed and most-representative electorate in American history made its choice yesterday, electing the nation’s first ever African American president by a decisive margin.
I spent Election Day prowling the polls across Albuquerque with my colleague Alicia Lueras Maldonado, looking for people’s personal voting stories and keeping an eye out for trouble.
In New Mexico, so [...]

My sentiments exactly

This pretty much sums it up. Couldn’t put it better, so I won’t even try.
The monster years
Last night wasn’t just a victory for tolerance; it wasn’t just a mandate for progressive change; it was also, I hope, the end of the monster years.
What I mean by that is that for the past 14 years America’s [...]

No. 44

It’s quite a lineup. Add another one to the list of No. 44s. Henry Aaron, Willie McCovey and now President Barack Obama.

Trick or Vote – Friday Oct. 31

On October 31st, members of New Mexico Youth Organized will hit the Burque streets for a massive nonpartisan Get Out the Vote drive called “Trick or Vote.” The costumed force of about 200 young people will meet at Lower Johnson Field on the UNM campus at 5pm and fan out in neighborhoods across the city [...]

Count every vote

Last night, Clearly New Mexico hosted our second virtual forum. The topic for the evening was election protection – the importance of which cannot be overstated.
Go here to check out both parts of the video.
Joining me for the hour-long program were Katy Duhigg and Steve Allen of Common Cause New Mexico. Steve and Katy have [...]

How to Rig an Election

Charges and countercharges are flying. Election fraud. Voter registration fraud. Vote suppression. Isn’t it time to get the down low from a real expert in the field?
Allen Raymond, author of How to Rig an Election, was the special guest on the most recent edition of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher. Raymond’s bonafides? He’s a [...]